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

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.

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.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.

Mix a little time with some space, and suddenly good things fall right into place. No worries, don't doubt it - just build!

Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.

There is no greater burden than great potential.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

It is extremely hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel.

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic. It's a very tragic thing to think about.

The motivation is fighting the right fight. The type of fight I know I can fight. That's the motivation and showing the people the way Sugar Shane really fights.