Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

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.

If a man realizes who he is, he will not be envious of others or condemn them because he knows his own value, uniqueness and peculiar contribution

Disrespect earns the displeasure of the creator and the creation.

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.

When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.