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

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

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

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

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

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.