Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.
Richard BrautiganIf 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 BrautiganWe walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.
Richard BrautiganOnce upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
Richard Brautigan