Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

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.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

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.