Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.

I gave up before birth.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

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

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.