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

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. — Harold Pinter

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

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. — Harold Pinter

I also found being called Sir rather silly. — Harold Pinter

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. — Harold Pinter

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

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

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

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. — Harold Pinter

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales. — Harold Pinter

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. — Harold Pinter

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. — Harold Pinter

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet. — Harold Pinter

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since. — Harold Pinter

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. — Harold Pinter

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. — Harold Pinter

How can the unknown merit reverence? — Harold Pinter

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. — Harold Pinter

I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it. — Harold Pinter

I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs. — Harold Pinter

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. — Harold Pinter

I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't. — Harold Pinter

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you. — Harold Pinter

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated. — Harold Pinter

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons. — Harold Pinter

I 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

It's very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror. — Harold Pinter

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

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? — Harold Pinter

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people. — Harold Pinter

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. — Harold Pinter

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules. — Harold Pinter

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years. — Harold Pinter

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of
blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute
contempt for the concept of international law. — Harold Pinter

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. — Harold Pinter

I can't really articulate what I feel, — Harold Pinter

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. — Harold Pinter

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. — Harold Pinter

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

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice. — Harold Pinter

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

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. — Harold Pinter

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. — Harold Pinter

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time. — Harold Pinter

I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time. — Harold Pinter

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

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. — Harold Pinter

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression. — Harold Pinter

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. — Harold Pinter

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. — Harold Pinter

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. — Harold Pinter

I no longer feel banished from myself. — Harold Pinter

One's life has many compartments. — Harold Pinter

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing. — Harold Pinter

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. — Harold Pinter

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

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. — Harold Pinter

There are places in my heart ... where no living soul ... has ... or can ever ... trespass. — Harold Pinter