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

The one overall structure in my plays is language

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

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.