Harold Pinter

“In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?”

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

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”

“I know the place I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.”

“I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civ...”

“Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.”

“I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.”

“I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.”

“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.”

“George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating peopl...”

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

“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.”

“A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motiv...”

“I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene a...”

“I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and B...”

“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.”

“Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.”

“Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.”

“The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.”

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