"I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. Wherever you are, we must do the best we can. It is so far to travel, and he have nothing here to travel, except watermelon sugar. I hope this works out."
-Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

"Our lives we have carefully constructed form watermelon sugar and then travelled to the length of our dreams."
-Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

"For all its frustration, I believe it was an interesting experiment in total loss."
-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America