There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

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

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?