Richard Brautigan

“Our names were made for us in another century.”

“I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. Th...”

“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.”

“Donner Party Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know”

“I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.”