I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience. Harold Pinter More Quotes by Harold Pinter More Quotes From Harold Pinter I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. Harold Pinter independent writing boys 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. Harold Pinter criminals united-states america The weasel under the cocktail cabinet. Harold Pinter cocktails humor funny Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice. Harold Pinter law blow justice I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. Harold Pinter modern hate literature The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. Harold Pinter awards country years I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way. Harold Pinter different wish writing 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. Harold Pinter arses cancer pain Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since. Harold Pinter drains donkey years I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired. Harold Pinter court criminals believe There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules. Harold Pinter 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. Harold Pinter knights government relationship If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect. Harold Pinter international court literature In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true. Harold Pinter cuba voice believe Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. Harold Pinter challenging-the-status-quo government league I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. Harold Pinter responsibility country thinking It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. Harold Pinter difficult gun sticks There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. Harold Pinter political intellectual art When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing. Harold Pinter humorous kind reality Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated. Harold Pinter appreciated light literature
