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.
The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment. - Peter Shaffer
The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.
- Peter Shaffer
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything. - Peter Shaffer
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. - Peter Shaffer
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves. - Peter Shaffer
Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it? - Peter Shaffer
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them a… - Peter Shaffer
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them a…
I was an accomplice in my own frustration. - Peter Shaffer
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it. - Peter Shaffer
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art. - Peter Shaffer
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
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