Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.” — Edward Bond Copy Share
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… — Edward Bond Copy Share
As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street. — Edward Bond Copy Share
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. — Edward Bond Copy Share
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama — Edward Bond Copy Share
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion — Edward Bond Copy Share
“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn… — Edward Bond Copy Share
“It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If… — Edward Bond Copy Share
“WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly… — Edward Bond Copy Share
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is… — Edward Bond Copy Share
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. — Edward Bond Copy Share
