We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

I think there is no world without theatre.

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.

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

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

She batted thoseeyelashes at me so hard I thought I felt a breeze.

Why say no when you could say yes!

If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.