Quotes By E. B. White

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

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

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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

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.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.