First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

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.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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.

Crises is the code that can open the gene of success for some.

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

Everything is a once in a lifetime experience.

Is Tyson okay?' I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland