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

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

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

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

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

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

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

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

I'm interested in the real world.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

Sacrilege takes strange forms in the young.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

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

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

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

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

I think there is no world without theatre.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.