What was God doing with himself before the creation?
God is love. Yes or no? No.
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?
All has not been said and never will be.
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
Imagination at wit’s end spreads its sad wings.
There’s never an end for the sea.
Adulterers, take warning, never admit.
Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there’s nothing like them!
There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
Mysterious affair, electricity.
It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.
But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we’re magicians.