It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

What's it going to be then, eh?

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.