Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?" I ask. "I'm trying to beat this bag to a pulp.”

— Mari Mancusi

“I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.”

— Michael Connelly

“Zen: 'I kinda went about it all wrong last night, didn't I? Melody: 'Kinda? It was a total fustercluck.' < actual word used >”

— Megan McCafferty

“unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

— Jeff Bridges

A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.

— Frank Zappa

“That's all there is, enlightenment on the end of a cock. It doesn't get any more Zen than that.”

— Jaden Wilkes

“You are truly zen when you can wipe your ass with the words you have written down.”

— Anonymous

“Watch whether your heart agrees with, everything that your tongue pronounces.”

— St. John of Kronstadt

“When there is no place for Zen in the head of our generation, it is in grievous trouble.”

— Paul Reps

“You are the deep innerness of all things, the last word that can never be spoken.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”

— Anthony Marra

This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!

— Frederick Lenz