Richard Brautigan Quotes

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

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

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

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

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

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

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

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

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.

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

Our names were made for us in another century.

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?

I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

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

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.

Her sunny side was always up.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.