E B White Quotes

The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key

E B White

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering

E B White

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

William Strunk Jr.