"When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry..."
"When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry."
"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."
"For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction."
"Accurst be he that first invented war."
"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."
"When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway."
"After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling."
"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
"I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'"
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."
"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit."
"To be, or not to be, that is the question."
"The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all."
"In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'"
"I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained."
"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found."
"The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to."
"Those who know the least obey the best."
"I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice."
"I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children."
"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."
