In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

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.

Angelina leaned forward as Sara pulled Miki back to her, "You know what they say about curiosity? That it stabbed the annoying biker girl over and over and over again until she spit up blood.

Sometimes the people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most.

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

You know, the energy I think I was just born with. I think I was just always like that as I kid; I was always real energetic.

To go nowhere, follow the crowd.

The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.

My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.