Quotes by : Harold Pinter

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live....

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire:....

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

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics....

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes....

I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in....

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