"Every person is responsible for their own actions."

"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions."

"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have—by disrupting that order—a way of surprising."

"I am not a professional politician. I am a professional playwright."

"Keeping a low profile is a good way to survive, but it's not a good way to live."