There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art, there are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, re… - Harold Pinter

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." — Harold Pinter: The Homecoming.

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.

„Кад се погледамо у огледало, мислимо да
је слика коју видимо верна. Али, померимо ли се само милиметар, слика се мења. Ми, заправо, гледамо
бескрајне одразе. Али писац понекад мора да разбије огледало, јер с друге стране тог огледала истина нам
зури право у лице.