Clintons hands remain incredibly clean, dont they, and Tony Blairs smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. – Harold Pinter
Theres a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. – Harold Pinter
I mean, dont forget the earths about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? – Harold Pinter
I dont 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
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldnt possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. Theres a relationship to government about knights. – Harold Pinter
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. – Harold Pinter
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. – Harold Pinter
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect. – 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
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. – Harold Pinter
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. – Harold Pinter
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. – Harold Pinter
