“I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friend...” — Peter Shaffer Quote

“I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.”

“I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.”

“Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.”

“The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.”

“Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.”

“As an athlete I was paranoid - and still am - about the slightest pimple that appeared on me and would shoot straight to the doctor.”