Quotes by : Donald Barthelme

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

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

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,....

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

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

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

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....