Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter passed away on Wednesday, leaving behind a legacy of 32 plays, one novel, and work on 22 screenplays.
The 78-year-old playwright made his career with award-winning plays like “The Birthday Party” and “The Homecoming.” He won the Nobel Prize in 2005, railing against President George W. Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his acceptance speech.
Here’s fierce Pinter quote from his AP obituary: “The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don’t hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”