The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

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

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

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

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

I'm interested in the real world.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama