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

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

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

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.