Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

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.

More than the disappearing trees and roses, it’s the human tendency to suppress the ‘Natural Voice’ of the ‘Nature’s Man’ which is sorrowful.

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that.

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.

Fear is just another word for ignorance.

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.