Harold Pinter Quotes

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
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 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 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.
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.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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.
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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