Top 39 Quotes by Harold Pinter

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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