More - Harold Pinter Quotes

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Harold Pinter

 

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns

Harold Pinter

 

I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world.

Harold Pinter

 

It's a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable.

Harold Pinter

 Language

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

Harold Pinter

 English Dramatist

I have no idea why they gave me the award, ... I respect their judgment. I am very grateful.

Harold Pinter

 Judgment

restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles.

Harold Pinter

 Mercy

I feel quite overwhelmed. I had absolutely no idea.

Harold Pinter

 

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

Harold Pinter

 

I can't really articulate what I feel,

Harold Pinter