Daily Inspiration Quote by Robert E. Sherwood

“We all come from our own little planets” is a playwright’s way of sneaking stagecraft into a philosophy of living. Sherwood isn’t describing astrology; he’s giving you a set design for human difference. Each person arrives with a private geography: habits, loyalties, fears, jokes, injuries. Call them “planets” and you get two things at once: distance (we don’t naturally understand one another) and legitimacy (those differences are real places, not mere quirks to be corrected).

The line’s cleverness is its soft defiance. In the mid-century American world Sherwood wrote for, “unity” was often sold as a civic virtue: wartime mobilization, mass culture, the pressure to sound, dress, and think in chorus. “Little planets” pushes back without sounding like a manifesto. It frames individuality as cosmic rather than selfish, and it turns otherness into a source of narrative energy. That’s the playwright’s subtext: conflict doesn’t come from villains; it comes from incompatible atmospheres. Put two “planets” in the same room and you get misunderstanding, comedy, tenderness, collision - drama.

Then he lands the message with an almost disarming simplicity: “That’s what makes life interesting.” Not better, not moral, not harmonious. Interesting. The word dodges sentimentality and admits the mess. Sherwood suggests that difference isn’t a problem to solve but the engine that keeps the story moving - onstage and off.