184 Quotes by 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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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