191 Quotes by richard brautigan

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.

I read the note and it did not please me and I threw it away, so not even time could find it.

He’d had enough suffering right now to last him forever with plenty left over for others if they didn’t have enough and wanted to have some more.

Burn all the maps to your body. I’m not here of my own choosing.

The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, “Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper,” and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

After he graduated from college, he went to Paris and became an Existentialist. He had a photograph taken of Existentialism and himself sitting at a sidewalk cafe. Pard was wearing a beard and he looked as if he had a huge soul, with barely enough room in his body to contain it.

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren’t bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I’d have second thoughts, but I’m not, so I don’t.

It only made sense that drinking intelligent blood would make intelligent fleas.

It’s good you’re happy,” she said. She said the word happy as if she were looking at it from a great distance through a telescope.