Top 39 Quotes by Harold Pinter

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

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.

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

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

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

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.

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

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.