Be obscure clearly.
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.
E. B. White

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. White

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.
E. B. White