Quotes from Richard Brautigan

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?

One day Time will die And love will bury it

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.

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 Beautiful Poem" I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penis affectionately. Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes me feel beautiful.

All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.

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 sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. i've never had it done so gently before. you have put a circle of castles around my penis and you swirl them like sunlight on the wings of birds.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

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