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

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.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

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.

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.

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.

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