Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

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.

I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

I am the worst judge of my books.

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.