184 Quotes by Harold Pinter

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

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

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

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.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

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.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.