Top 39 Quotes by Harold Pinter

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

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

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

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

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.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

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

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.

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

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