Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

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.

A gun is to your head and you have one phone call. If they answer, You die. If they don't, you're free. Who are you calling ?

So are we going to eat some Boo Berry or what?" John said, leaping out of his seat and toward the refrigerator.

I just don't like to ask for things.

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

The higher we go, the better we shall hear the voice of Christ

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.