Quotes By Harold Pinter

• War

  I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And...

• Smile

  Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean don't they and Tony Blair's smile...

• Respect

  If Milosevic is to be tried he has to be tried by a proper court an...

• Politics

  There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political...

• Moving on

  I mean don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old at...

• Intelligence

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

• Intelligence

  I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical...

• Government

  Most of the press is in league with government or with the status quo.

• Government

  I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept....

• Birthday

  My second play The Birthday Party I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally...