Beckett on Beckett: thought provoking ruminations 

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

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

“James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.”

“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”

“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”