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

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 seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

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

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.

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

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.