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

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.

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.

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

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

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