Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
E. B. WhiteDemocracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
E. B. WhiteCommas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. WhiteIt's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. 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 between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White