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.

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

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

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

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

The one overall structure in my plays is language