
Quality isn't a thing. It is an event. —
Robert M. Pirsig

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. —
Robert M. Pirsig

Quality tends to fan out like waves. —
Robert M. Pirsig

If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged. —
Robert M. Pirsig

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. —
Robert M. Pirsig

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality. —
Robert M. Pirsig

My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. —
Robert M. Pirsig