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

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.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

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.

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

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

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