Peter Shaffer, Amadeus Quotes

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

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

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!

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