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

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

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 think there is no world without theatre.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.