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

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

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

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

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

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.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.