When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

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.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

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

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

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.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.