Quotes from Richard Brautigan

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.

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

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

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

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

Our names were made for us in another century.