Quotation by Samuel Beckett

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A, in "Theatre II," one of the dramatic pieces in Ends and Odds Grove Press (1976)"An Imaginative Work!" Dublin Magazine, xi, n.s. (July-Sept., 1936)Arsene, in Watt Grove Press (1959)Bam, in What Where (1984)"Beckett's Letters on Endgame" The Village Voice Reader, Doubleday (1962)

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The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Medeleine" [interview], p. 22, Columbia University Forum IV (Summer, 1961).

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