Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?"

Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art."

Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"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, Amadeus

"Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?"

Peter Shaffer, Amadeus