It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

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.

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

If we wish not to go backwards, we must run.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter.