Robert M. Pirsig

"The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed."

"She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before."

"Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila."