Top 39 Quotes by Harold Pinter

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

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.

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.

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.

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