White, E. B. (E. B. White)

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
-- E. B. White

It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenges. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem.

But I arise in the morning torn by the twin desires to reform the world and to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
-- E. B. White

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
-- E. B. White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
-- E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
-- 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.
-- E. B. White

I wake up in the morning torn between the desire to save the world and to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
-- E. B. White

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White

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