What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent--fabulously more coherent--when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world....

...but showing that, of course, was a very big job....

--from Lila

Rumors have been flying around for quite a while that Pirsig committed suicide. He did not. He is currently staying out of the limelight and working on various projects.

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance AN INQUIRY INTO VALUES by Robert M. Pirsig
• Quotes from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Interview from 1974

• Quality
• Aloneness
• Dichotomy
• Imitation
• Specialization
• Stuckness
• The Classic Mode
• The Souce of Trouble
• Tools
• Value Rigidity

• "The Ideas of a University"
• "All About Maintenance" by Carla King
• The Search for Truth, and its Consequences for Problem Solving by Lloyd Peppard
• Robert Pirsig Resources Project
• Green Island Spoken Audio Cooperative Library (which sells recordings of Pirsig)