I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking, and I write a first draft quite rapidly. Read it over. Make a few pencil corrections, where I think I've got the rhythms wrong in the speeches, for example, and then retype the whole thing. And in the retyping I discover that maybe one or two more speeches will come in. One or two more things will happen, but not much.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.