Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.

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.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.