Harold Pinter: Not a word out of place

Independent Online Edition: "Harold Pinter's plays make him laugh. They may be famed for their pauses and an air of unspecified menace, but the Nobel laureate thinks reverential fans are simply missing the joke. 'I think there has been a curious solemnity about [productions of] my work. I don't know why. It's inexplicable,' he says. 'I do think my work is funnier than most people are led to believe. I laugh, anyway.'"