"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…"

"It means what it says."

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

"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."

"I felt weak, perhaps I was."

"To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again."