Samuel Beckett

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Words are all we have.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.