What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
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.