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

- Harold Pinter

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.

- Harold Pinter

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.

- Harold Pinter

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

- Harold Pinter

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

- Harold Pinter

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

- Harold Pinter

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

- Harold Pinter

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.

- Harold Pinter

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

- Harold Pinter

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.

- Harold Pinter

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

- Harold Pinter

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

- Harold Pinter

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

- Harold Pinter

One's life has many compartments.

- Harold Pinter

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

- Harold Pinter

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.

- Harold Pinter

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

- Harold Pinter

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

- 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.

- Harold Pinter

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

- Harold Pinter