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'm not interested in an imaginary world

I think there is no world without theatre.

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

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

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.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

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

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

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

We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.

In time of peace prepare for war.

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

I'm for a stronger death penalty.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

An intellectual carrot - the mind boggles.

Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.