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

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

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

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