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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
— Peter Shaffer
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.
— Peter Shaffer
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
— Peter Shaffer
When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.
— Peter Shaffer
God was singing through this little man to all the world.
— Peter Shaffer
I cannot accept merely ... I do not do anything merely.
— Peter Shaffer
Art and literature are my surrogate religions.
— Peter Shaffer
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
— Peter Shaffer
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
— Peter Shaffer
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.
— Peter Shaffer
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.
— Peter Shaffer
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
— Peter Shaffer
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
— Peter Shaffer
Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?
— Peter Shaffer
You have your words, and I have mine.
— Peter Shaffer
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
— Peter Shaffer
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
— Peter Shaffer
That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?
— Peter Shaffer
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.
— Peter Shaffer
You can't always let people do their own thing.
— Peter Shaffer
Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world?
— Peter Shaffer
The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
— Peter Shaffer
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
— Peter Shaffer
What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
— Peter Shaffer
