Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

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

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

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

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.