A biography for Harold Pinterhasn’t been written yet.
“I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.”
“You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.”
“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.”
“All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.”
“My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.”
“No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.”
“Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.”
“I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.”