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

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

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.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

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.