“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”
Peter Shaffer“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.”
Peter Shaffer“The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.”
Peter Shaffer“We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.”
Peter Shaffer“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
Peter Shaffer“A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.”
Peter Shaffer, Equus“There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.”
Peter Shaffer, Equus“To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!”
Peter Shaffer, Equus“Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?”
Peter Shaffer, Amadeus“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”
Peter Shaffer, Amadeus“Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.”
Peter Shaffer, Amadeus