Harold Pinter Quotes

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

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 saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

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

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

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

No 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.

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

Listen. 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.BLACKOUT

As it is?

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

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