Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

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.

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

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.