Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer
Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBEwas an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been turned into films...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth15 May 1926
strong tire bores
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
children eye normal
The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
daddy devil made
The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.
children world born
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
dark light play
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.
pain unique firsts
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!'...
mines
You have your words, and I have mine.
frustration accomplices my-own
I was an accomplice in my own frustration.