Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter CH CBEwas a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Trial, and Sleuth. He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 October 1930
The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. And he is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.