Quotes by Harold Pinter
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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.
I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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.
A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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