Top 39 Quotes by 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.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

One's life has many compartments.

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