191 Quotes by richard brautigan

You’re not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it’s like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

It’s all right,” she said. “It’s all right.” That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does that: that sings when you are impotent.

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.

We could see the children’s toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn’t a game at all, only the grave of a game.

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.

Watcha doin? If you’re like me, you’re doin nothin, but you’re doin it so well that everybody thinks you’re doin somethin.

New furniture has no character whereas old furniture always has a past. New furniture is always mute, but old furniture can almost talk. You can almost hear it talking about the good times and troubles it’s seen. I think there is a Country and Western song about talking furniture, but I can’t remember the name.

Don’t worry about him, the girl said. He’s rich. He has 3,859 Rolls Royces.