Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.