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'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.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

You should have worn a baby pink t-shirt on which a child sucks his thumb. That would have given you the required juvenile look. ~ Subhangi Tyagi

It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

The stars, he said, were actually souls, all the souls that were too restless to be locked up in heaven. They were so restless that God let them stay outside at night to play.

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.