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. ”