Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

I think there is no world without theatre.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.

Love is the ultimate creator.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

To actually be a part of a brand that you look up to, and a legendary one at that, is super dope.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.