Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

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

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

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 are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

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