"My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge inste..."
- Scott Thompson
"They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted."
- Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
"Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley ..."
- Robert M. Pirsig
"Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles."
- Lily Brooks-Dalton
"They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own."
- Jess "Chief" Brynjulson
"Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?""If you take care of it.""What do you have to do?""Lot's of things. You've been watching me.""Will you show me all of them?""Sure.""Is it hard?""Not if y..."
"The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very l..."
"There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside unde..."
"I talked yesterday about caring, I care about these moldy old riding gloves. I smile at them flying through the breeze beside me because they have been there for so many years and are so old and so ti..."
"We are all a little damaged, Bee. Some of us more than others."
- T.M. Frazier