Peter Shaffer

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

— Peter Shaffer

#life-lessons #life

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

— Peter Shaffer

#new #new york #oil #painting #watercolor

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#drama #morality #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! ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#artistic-substance #mozart #musical-history #salieri #art

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

— Peter Shaffer

#equality

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

— Peter Shaffer

#experience

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#actor #being #did #fact #fantasies

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#budding #detective #detective story #even #form

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#children #fact #fantasy #guides #i

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#film #first #i #i think #leading