White, Elwyn Brooks

"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."

"The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." - in New Yorker

"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people." - One Man's Meat