Quotes by : Donald Barthelme

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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