We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

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.

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

None but a mule denies his family.

Someday, I plan to buy a house in Goa, do only one movie a year, and spend the rest of time painting, learning how to cook, cooking for friends, and doing yoga.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.