E.B. White Quotes

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
...Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

Never hurry and never worry!

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

"I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

Be obscure clearly.

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.