Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The trouble is if you dont spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.à — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In an ultimate sense I cannot know what I do in this place - yet I do ultimate things. Essentially I cannot know what… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.” — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“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… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me,… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
