E.B. WhiteThinkers

An Agreement is primarily responsible for causing disagreement among people or countries.

Artificial intelligence is not going to overtake humans. Although computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The Atomic age's terror is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Awareness is a rare thing. Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

The Book is good company because books are people, people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

The Book is the door of escape from the forest.

The City is like poetry in that it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

The City is given its tidal restlessness by commuters, its solidity and continuity are given by natives, but the settlers give it passion.

Commuting is more or less a matter of shaving and taking a train and then riding back to shave again.

Commuting is spending one's life riding to and from one's wife.

Creation is, in part, merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Creative writing is communication through revelation, the self-escaping into the open.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith, for some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.