Quotes by Richard Brautigan

“all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”

“Ill affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It wont rain.”

“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,she slowly closed out of sight,and she was the woman I loved,but too many times she slept likea mechanical deer in my caresses,and I ached in the metal silenceof...”

“Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.”

“Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.”

“The Beautiful Poem"I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you.Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penisaffectionately.Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes mefeel beautiful.”

“We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children...”

“Our names were made for us in another century.”

“I have emotionsthat are like newspapers thatread themselves.I go for days at a timetrapped in the want ads.I feel as if I am an adfor the sale of a haunted house:18 rooms$37,000I'm yoursghosts and ...”

“For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat arent you at all.”

“Messy, isn't it?”

“The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large ...”

“Moonlight drifts from overA hundred thousand milesTo fall upon a cemeteryIt reads a hundred epitaphsAnd then smiles at a nest ofBaby owls”

“Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home”

“There was something dead in my heart.I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclu...”

“My sperm came out into the water, unaccustomed to the light, and instantly it became a misty, stringy kind of thing and swirled out like a falling star, and I saw a dead fish come forward and float...”

“30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.”

“I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.”

“She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.”

“the sweet juices of your mouthare like castles bathed in honey.i've never had it done so gently before.you have put a circle of castlesaround my penis and you swirl themlike sunlight on the wings o...”