Quotes By E. B. White

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

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.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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.