Quotes by : Donald Barthelme

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

See the moon? It hates us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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