Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

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.

There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.

Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

David Roberts, who is a writer at Vox who I like, had a line about the voter - your voters weren't locked in the room with you, Republican establishment. You were locked in the room with them.

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Get in God's word every day. God's word equips us for everything we do.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.

I don't much like looking back.