Peter Shaffer

“The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.”

“I can't live by a catalog of negatives.”

“At least I galloped. When did you?”

“Enlarge! Enliven! Enlighten!”

“A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.”

“There are too many notes.”

“I'm telling you, that horse is a god.”

“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.”

“Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you... I absolve you... I absolve you all.”

“That was God. That was God, laughing at me.”

“My music. It's my music they're playing.”

“When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.”

“All I wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and then made me mute.”