Peter Shaffer

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

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

"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses."

"The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece."

"We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children."

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

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