Quotes by Harold Pinter
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
One's life has many compartments.
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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