Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

We have learned how to spot the good ones [i.e. roads] on a map, for example. If the line wiggles, that's good. That means hills. If it appears to be the main route from a town to a city, that's bad. The best ones always connect nowhere with nowhere and have an alternate that gets you there quicker. If you are going northeast from a large town you never go straight out of town for any long distance. You go out and then start jogging north, then east, then north again, and soon you are on a secondary route that only the local people use.

-- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

With those tools and a lack of pressure to “get somewhere” it works out fine and we just about have America all to ourselves.

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.

Source: Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"