Quotes by E. B. White

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Be obscure clearly.

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

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.