30 cents, two transfers, love 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.

— Richard Brautigan

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

— Richard Brautigan

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

— Richard Brautigan

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

— Richard Brautigan

Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

— 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

I have emotions
that are like newspapers that
read themselves. I go for days at a time
trapped in the want ads. 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’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

— Richard Brautigan

Messy, isn't it?

— Richard Brautigan

Moonlight drifts from over hundred thousand miles To fall upon a cemetery It reads a hundred epitaphs And then smiles at a nest of Baby owls

— Richard Brautigan