Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

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.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

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