Donald Barthelme Quotes

“I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.”
― Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

“All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities," the note concludes.
This is surely true. Yet the vivacity with which he embraces ruin is unexampled, in my experience.”
― Donald Barthelme