Quotes by : Peter Shaffer

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I.....

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique....

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.