Richard Brautigan

“Messy, isn't it?”

— Richard Brautigan

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

— Richard Brautigan

“Money is sad shit”

— Richard Brautigan

Her sunny side was always up.

— Richard Brautigan

“Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars.”

— Richard Brautigan

“Everyone has a place in history. Mine is clouds.”

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Richard Brautigan

Our names were made for us in another century.

— Richard Brautigan

“It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality.”

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Richard Brautigan

“Someday Time will die, and Love will bury it”

— Richard Brautigan

“She was a perfect freeway Mona Lisa.”

— Richard Brautigan

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.

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Richard Brautigan

“My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit.”

— Richard Brautigan

“He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use.”

— Richard Brautigan

After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn't know it until later.

— Richard Brautigan

Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live…

— Richard Brautigan

“The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass”

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Richard Brautigan

“While discussing the monster: "It sounds like the combination of water being poured into a glass," Miss Hawkline said, "A dog barking…

— Richard Brautigan

“It's all right," she said. "It's all right." That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does…

— Richard Brautigan

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another…

— Richard Brautigan

The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for…

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Richard Brautigan

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes…

— Richard Brautigan

“If I Should Die Before You Do When you wake up from death, you will find yourself in my arms, and I…

— Richard Brautigan

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the…

— Richard Brautigan

“It's an old song that's been played on all the jukeboxes in America. The song has been around so long that it's…

— Richard Brautigan

“I guess the last remaining question is: What about the sombrero? It's still there, lying in the street but its temperature had…

— Richard Brautigan

Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to…

— Richard Brautigan

“Vida was sound asleep when I went back to my room. I turned on the light and it woke her up. She…

— Richard Brautigan

“We stepped outside rather hurriedly and down the street to anonymous sanctuary among the buildings of San Francisco. "Promise me till your…

— Richard Brautigan

“ I will be very careful the next time I fall in love , she told herself. Also, she had made a…

— Richard Brautigan

“Congratulations," I said. "It's so wonderful to write a book." "I walked all the way here," she said. "I started at midnight.…

— Richard Brautigan

“Yukiko rolled over. That plain, that simple. Her body was small in its moving. And her hair followed, dreaming her as she…

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Richard Brautigan

One day Time will die And love will bury it

— Richard Brautigan

“In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done”

— Richard Brautigan