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

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

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.

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.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

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