Harold Pinter
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"Harold Pinter", Order of the Companions of Honour/CH, Commander of the Order of the British Empire/CBE was a List of Nobel laureates in Literature/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 (play)/The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (play)/Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963 film)/The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (film)/The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)/The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993 film)/The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007 film)/Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.

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

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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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

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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

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

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The general thrust these days is: "Oh, come on, it's all in the past, nobody's interested any more, it didn't work, everyone knows what the Americans are like, but stop being naive, this is the world, there's nothing to be done about it and anyway fu.

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No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion."

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

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

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