Richard Brautigan quotes

Richard Brautigan was an American novelist and poet, celebrated for his unique blend of humor and surreal imagery. His works, including "Trout Fishing in America" and "In Watermelon Sugar," became iconic in the countercultural movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He left a lasting influence on contemporary literature with his unconventional style. Here are 52 of his quotes:

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?

Richard Brautigan

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

Richard Brautigan

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

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

"There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

Richard Brautigan

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."

Richard Brautigan

... the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.

Richard Brautigan

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.

Richard Brautigan

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Richard Brautigan

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.

Richard Brautigan

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.

Richard Brautigan

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

Richard Brautigan

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.

Richard Brautigan

A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.

Richard Brautigan

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 it's 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, it's you, baby, this time Instead of me.

Richard Brautigan

Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they're lined up for blocks, so I'll go to bed with you. They won't miss us.

Richard Brautigan

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

Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1. Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.

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 a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

Richard Brautigan

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

Richard Brautigan

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.

Richard Brautigan

Her sunny side was always up.

Richard Brautigan