Donald Barthelme Quotes

But the lie had to be a good one, because if your lie is badly done it makes everyone feel wretched,...

Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were i...

We could unleash all this technology at once. You can imagine what would happen then. But that's not...

New artists have been obtained. These do not object to, and indeed argue enthusiastically for, the r...

I noticed that he was an Irish setter, rust-colored. He noticed that I was a Welsh sculptor, buff-co...

Is that true," I asked, "that song?""It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth....

--Why are we fighting them?--They're mad. We're sane.--How do we know?--That we're sane?--Yes.--Am I...

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what ...

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

I visit my assistant mistress. "Well, Azalea," I say, sitting in the best chair, "what has happened ...

Smoke, rain, abulia. What can the concerned citizen do to fight the rise of capitalism, in his own c...

the hinder portion scalding-house good eating Curve B in addition to the usual baths and ablutions m...

I myself," said Gibbon, "am slightly underdone in the personal worthlessness line. It was Papa's fau...

Then Wanda proposed a health. "Health to abandoned wives!" she said. "Well now," I said. "'Abandoned...

It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

They were heading I judged for the Sixth Precinct. Had I had the black hat with me, and sufficient m...

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done...

I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. ...

There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subside...

This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your hea...

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless...

You told me that Kafka was not a thinker, and that a "genetic" approach to his work would disclose t...

Immature citizens in several sizes were massed before a large factorylike structure where advanced t...

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied archi...

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

See the moon? It hates us.

There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she i...