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

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.