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

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

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

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
Harold Pinter

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

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

One's life has many compartments.
Harold Pinter

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
Harold Pinter

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
Harold Pinter

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
Harold Pinter

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Harold Pinter

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Harold Pinter

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
Harold Pinter

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
Harold Pinter

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Harold Pinter

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