Profoundly important...full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas * New York Times * Mr Pirsig has written a work of great, perhaps urgent, importance... Read this book * Observer * The book is inspired, original...the narrative tact, the perfect economy of effect defy criticism. The analogies with Moby Dick are patent * New Yorker * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an unforgettable trip * Time * Disturbing, deeply moving, full of insights...this is a wonderful book * Times Literary Supplement * It is filled with beauty...a finely made whole that seems to emanate from a very special grace * Baltimore Sun *