Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

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

And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

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