Quotes About Barthelme

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

At night I drank and my hostility came roaring out if its cave like a jet-assisted banshee.

I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.

We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of Fear, Chix, and Rats.

mead for my men!

Dan keeps telling Snow White that Christmas is coming! How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?

He is, professionally, an arbiter of comedy. "A sort of drama critic?" "More what you would term an umpire. The members of the audience are given a set of rules and the rules constitute the comedy.