Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

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.

Learning is the source of growth and we become stagnant without it.

If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.

I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.