E. B. White

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."

"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."

"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men."

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

"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."

"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."

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