All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theater and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

— Harold Pinter

As it is?

— Harold Pinter

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.

— Harold Pinter

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

— Harold Pinter

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

— 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

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

— 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

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

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

— Harold Pinter