E. B. White

"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 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."

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

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

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

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