The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

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

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

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

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.