Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.