I think there is no world without theatre.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

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.

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

Hay menos tiempo que lugar, no obstante, hay lugares que duran un minuto y para cierto tiempo no ha lugar.

People can learn a lot from one another if their need to be right falls away.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.