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

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 will be judged by how well we love.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

Rituals build brands.

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.