Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.