E. B. White

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.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.