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

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.

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

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.