Harold Pinter Quotes

"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living."
-Harold Pinter

"Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?"
-Harold Pinter

"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."
-Harold Pinter in Sex quotes.

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

"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."
-Harold Pinter

"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.""
-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

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