When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

non c’è peggiore infedeltà che essere fedeli a un morto

Why would a god sacrifice her life if she was God? Just show real power and send an army of angels and there'd be no debate.

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

It's great to have actors who are often cast against type.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.