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.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

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.