It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

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.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

My hope is to never act again and just do press.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

The Human heart is an idol factory.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.

We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. after I finish laughing.