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.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

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.

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.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

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

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves