Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

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