Top 39 Quotes by Harold Pinter

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

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

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

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.

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

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

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

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.