Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.
A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.