Quotes by E. B. White

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

"Be obscure clearly."

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."

"The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it."

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."

"The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance."

"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."