Edward Bond

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

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

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

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

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.

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