A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they’re always wanting to participate in something, and I don’t often have that element in me. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
I’ve seen the most remarkable thing. It’s in the New York Public Library. They’ve got the original typescript of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ – all four acts of it. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
In London, ‘Equus’ caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. Peter Shaffer Read Quote