I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I have written 29 plays and I think that's really enough,

My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.