Harold Pinter

I was a recognized tyrant in the classroom.

The world is a bloody mess.

Art is a filthy business.

I feel I have a right to speak on this. I have a right to speak on any damn thing I like.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

What do you do? How do you live? How do you survive? We live in a nightmare.

You've got to think about the future. No, not the future. The present. The present is the future.

I love you now; isn't that enough?

The past is what you take with you.

I had a bit of a kick in the balls there.

Politics is the art of the possible.

The only thing I can do is act.

We had a different ethos in those days. We believed in something.

Silence in the play has a very important role.

I don't write with ease. I write with difficulty.

The room is the world.

Truth in drama is forever elusive.

I view war as a criminal activity.

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act.

Language is a mask of a face.