Happy birthday, Donald Barthelme! Here are some quote from his writing.
“I am never needlessly obscure—I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.”
“‘How can you be alienated without first having been connected?'”
“Originality is the last refuge of a hero…”
“All I want is just a trace of skeleton—three bones from which the rest may be reasoned out.”
“When people don’t write letters, language deteriorates.”