You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

My essential identity is that of a writer.

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.