And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.
Donald BarthelmeFaint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating.
Donald BarthelmeEndings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
Donald BarthelmeThe best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.
Donald Barthelme