"If I hadn’t had Beckett in 1940 [in Paris, when Van Velde was strongly demoralized by the death of his wife], I’m not…"

"The prospect of reading Beckett's letters quickens the blood like no other's, and one must hope to stay alive until t…"

"I met Beckett at my brother’s place. That was a Big meeting [circa 1938, in Paris], in capital letters. It was before…"

"In fact, the real problem with the thesis of A Genealogy of Morals is that the noble and the aristocrat are just as l…"

"The only sin is the sin of being born."

"Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the …"

"I felt weak, perhaps I was."

"I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid a…"

"The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevita…"

"I grow gnomic. It is the last phase."