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

— Harold Pinter

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 Birmingham.

— Harold Pinter

Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this." He turns out the light. BLACKOUT

— 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

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Rarely, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

— Harold Pinter

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

— Harold Pinter

RUTH: If you take the glass… I’ll take you.

— Harold Pinter

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

— Harold Pinter

There was one man in the Labor government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

— Harold Pinter

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

— Harold Pinter