I'm interested in the real world.

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.

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.

Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.

I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.

Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you can think into existence are unlimited.