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

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

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

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

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.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.