Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

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.

I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

You have to able to make fun of yourself. Don't take things too seriously and when people make fun of you, laugh at it.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.