Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

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

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.