The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

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.

Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what’s already done well

Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.