Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. He wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and ten books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been published both in the United States and internationally throughout Europe, Japan, and China. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967), In Watermelon Sugar (19
"if a girl likes me a lot and starts getting real nervous and suddenly begins asking me funny questions and looks sad if I give the wrong answers and she says things like, "Do you think its going to rain?" and I say, "It beats me," and she says, "Oh," and looks a little sad at the clear blue California sky, I think: Thank God, its you, baby, this time Instead of me."
"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 was alone."
"Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If theres nothing there, how can anything go wrong?"
"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 write poetry."
"Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know"
"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 loving grace."
"Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, theyre lined up for blocks, so Ill go to bed with you. They wont miss us."
"I didnt know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come."
"All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds."
