I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

I can't really articulate what I feel.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.