• If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

    Robert M. Pirsig: If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
    Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.