For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

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

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

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

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.