What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

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

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.