Peter Shaffer Quotes

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

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

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

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

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!

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?