Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

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.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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

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.

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

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion