Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

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 hallowed out my Bible to put another, smaller Bible inside.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

Acknowledge what i mean, and not what say

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.