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.

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

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

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.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion