Quotes by Richard Brautigan

“We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.”

“I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain.”

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

“I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves.I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads.I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house:18 rooms $37,000 I'm yours ghos...”

“For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all.”

“A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to wr...”

“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of l...”

“Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know”

“Thinking 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 wasalone.”

“Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they're lined up for blocks, so I'll go to bed with you. They won't miss us.”

“There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.”

“Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the sound of a bell ringing off the yellow. But the thing that smelled the most like...”

“... the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.”

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”