01UndatedThere are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
03UndatedYou are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
04UndatedListen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this."He turns out the light.BLACKOUTHarold Pinter / quote ↗
05UndatedIn other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?Harold Pinter / quote ↗
06UndatedOne way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
07UndatedIraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
09UndatedNo one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
10UndatedI mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?Harold Pinter / quote ↗
11UndatedI never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
12UndatedI 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.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
13UndatedAll I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
14UndatedThere was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
15UndatedI wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
16UndatedMy 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.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
18UndatedI 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.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
19UndatedClinton'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.Harold Pinter / quote ↗
