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.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

I don't like to get in front of people.