Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.