I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Source: Belacqua, in Dream of Fair to Middling Women, 1932; published 1992.
-- Samuel Beckett, (Apr 13 1906-1989), Irish playwright, novelist; He is best known for his play Waiting for Godot, 1952; won the Noble Prize Literature, 1969.