“ We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of… Peter Shaffer
“ It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event… Peter Shaffer
“ You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. Peter Shaffer
“ 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! Peter Shaffer
“ Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you? Peter Shaffer
“ 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
“ That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you? Peter Shaffer
