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 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'm interested in the real world.

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.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

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

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks