Quotes By Harold Pinter

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

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

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.