The one overall structure in my plays is language

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.

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

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 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 think there is no world without theatre.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.