There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.
Richard BrautiganMy teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
Richard BrautiganIโll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It wonโt rain.
Richard Brautigan