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

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

I'm interested in the real world.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.