Richard Brautigan – Quotes

I have a 75 watt, glare free, long life
Harmony House light bulb in my toilet.
I have been living in the same apartment
for over two years now
and that bulb just keeps burning away.
I believe that it is fond of me.

The act of dying
is like hitch-hiking
into a strange town
late at night
where it is cold
and raining,
and you are alone
again.

Suddenly
all the street lamps
go out
and everything
becomes dark,
so dark
that even the buildings
are afraid
of one another.

Ah,
you're just a copy
of all the candy bars
I've ever eaten.

It seemed
like years
before
I picked
a bouquet
of kisses
off her mouth
and put them
into a dawn-colored vase
in
my
heart.
But
the wait
was worth it.
Because
I
was
in love.

There
is no worse
hell
than
to remember
vividly
a kiss
that
never occurred.

All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.

Forget love
I want to die
in your yellow
hair.

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a top,
I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without you.

Fragile, fading 37,
she wears her wedding ring like a trance
and stares straight down at an empty coffee cup
as if she were looking into the mouth of a dead bird.
Dinner is over. Her husband has gone to the toilet.
He will be back soon and then it will be her turn
to go to the toilet.

It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don't love them
any more.