Donald Barthelme Quotes
See the moon? It hates us.
Barthelme, Donald. "See the Moon?" Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
Expressing his feeling regarding President Grover Cleveland who failed to deal with serious economic problems:
Donald Barthelme was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.