Pinter…beyond parody

The latest from everyone's favourite Companion of Honour. From the Times today:


“AT THE National Portrait Gallery party in honour of Lord Weidenfeld on Wednesday.

Harold Pinter: “Hello.”

People: “Hello. How are you?”

Pinter: “I didn’t say ‘how are you’, I said ‘hello’.”

People: “Well, how are you anyway?”

Pinter: “That is the ******* disease of modern society. Everyone wants to know how you are. I just say I’m ******* awful. ******* AWFUL.”

People: “Can we talk about your film script for Sir Michael Caine and Jude Law, then?”

Pinter: “No. Goodbye.”

It can’t have taken long to write those plays.”

(Hat-tip RW)