The theatre is a place where we can confront our demons in public.

剧院是一个我们可以在公众面前面对内心恶魔的地方。

I think that plays are there to disturb, not to reassure.

我认为戏剧的存在是为了扰乱，而不是为了安抚。

The theatre is the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

戏剧是人类能够与他人分享作为人类的意义的最直接方式。

The purpose of art is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

艺术的目的是让舒适的人不安，让不安的人舒适。

I don't write plays to be liked. I write plays to make people think.

我写剧本不是为了被喜欢，而是为了让人们思考。

The function of the writer is to disturb the sleep of the world.

作家的职责是扰乱世界的睡眠。

A play is fiction—and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

戏剧是虚构的——而虚构是将事实提炼成真理。

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

剧院是一个你有时间为人们的问题留出时间的地方，而如果这些人来你办公室求职，你会把他们拒之门外。

I write plays because I have a strong moralistic streak.

我写剧本是因为我有强烈的道德倾向。

If you have no enemies, you're dead.

如果你没有敌人，那你就已经死了。