E. B. White Thoughts

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

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

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

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

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

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

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

Only a congenially self-centred person has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.