Barry Wightman > Barry's Quotes

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

“And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don't already have one ... I'm out of here.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A screaming comes across the sky.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“I began to parse the sentence. This is what English majors do. It's what we're trained to do. We don't know how to do anything else, except drive cabs.”
― Gary Reilly, The Heart of Darkness Club

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon