E. B. White

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

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

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

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

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.

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

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.