Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. WhiteWe are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.
E. B. WhiteAdvice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
E. B. WhiteThe main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
E. B. WhiteIโve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirstyโeverything I donโt like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
E. B. WhiteI believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
E. B. White