Samuel Beckett anecdote

A whiff of the apocryphal about this one:

After a rehearsal in England, Beckett, his director Alan Schnieder and a friend are walking across a field on a rare beautiful sunny day in London.

Schneider: It's a beautiful day.

Beckett: Yes, it is.

Friend: Glorious.

Schneider: The kind of day that makes you glad to be alive.

Beckett: Well, I wouldn't go that far.