Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.- Harold Pinter
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex is not too bad either.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
I mean, do not forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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.
I do not think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
I do not 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.
