The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

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.

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.

Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required.

A true friend finds a way to celebrate—even in the worst moments of life—and forces it upon you.

I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason.

The biggest and loveliest miracle of today is you yourself!

You know there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you loved me and didn't realise

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.

Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?

Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.

A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members.