What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

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 think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

The desires of the flesh leads to sin. But the delight of the spirit leads to life.

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

Never believe you have a Spouse or a Friend until problems come.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

If you are going to work hard anyway, you might as well get rich...and the quicker the better!

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

I never go ballistic, I'm always measured and tempered.