From the Book - First edition.
1906-23: "You might say I had a happy childhood . . ."
1923-28: "Continuous amazement at the stranger in their midst"
1928-29: "The splendidly mad Irishman"
1929-30: "A young man with the itch to make and nothing to say"
1930-1931: ". . . lost the best"
1931-32: "I'll be here till I die, creeping along genteel roads on a stranger's bike"
1933: ". . . my father died when I was a boy, otherwise . . ."
1934: "Depressed ... in a confused state"
1935: "Time to pull the plug on London"
Murphy: "Who is this Murphy. ... Is he, has he, anything at all?"
1935-38: "I am deteriorating now very rapidly"
1938-39: "No matter how things go, I shall stay here"
1942-45: "No symbols where none intended"
1946-48: "The siege in the room"
Waiting for Godot: "A marvelous, liberating diversion"
1949-50: "All very fine, but the voice is failing"
1951-53: "Now that we are embarked on a dirty business . . ."
1953-54: "I can't go on and I can't get back"
1955-57: "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness"
1958-60: "Perhaps my best years are gone. ... But I wouldn't want them back. Now with the fire in me now"
1961-62: "Back to the battle, lights and voices"
1963-65: "I shall have to go to New York . . ."
1966-69: "Quel catastrophe!"
1969-73: "Un inconnu célèbre"
1973-: "A stain upon the silence."
