Harold Pinter Quotes

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be someho...

I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time i...

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remai...

Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light ...

As it is?

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an indepen...

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I int...

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly ...

RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and...

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to ...

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had th...

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever....

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.