Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

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.

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