Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
Ariel DorfmanI'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.
Ariel DorfmanWe can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Ariel DorfmanTorture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness.
Ariel Dorfman