Peter Shaffer
Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?Collection: Thinking
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.Collection: God
Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.Collection: Pain
All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.Collection: Funny
Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.Collection: Fear
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.Collection: Champion