The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

- Peter Shaffer

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

- 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…

- Peter Shaffer

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

- Peter Shaffer

Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.

- Peter Shaffer

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

- Peter Shaffer

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

- Peter Shaffer

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

- Peter Shaffer

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

- Peter Shaffer