We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

I think there is no world without theatre.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

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.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

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

The one overall structure in my plays is language