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.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

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

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.