Quotes by White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I >>

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anyw >>

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus >>

Quotations about Letters

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surpri >>

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields hi >>

How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which ma >>

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)