...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.

He contributed several short pieces to be used as broadsides by the Communication Company. He has one grandchild named Elizabeth who was born about two years after his death. The label was shut down by Allen Klein before the recording could be released but it was eventually released in 1970 on Harvest Records as Listening to Richard Brautigan.

Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30 1935 – ca. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America.