E.B. White's granddaughter Martha selects quotations from the venerable children's author and New Yorker essay writer in In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers (Cornell University Press, $22.95, 232 pp.). The quotes cover everything from bees to fatherhood to the species of White's most famous creation: spiders. "Spiders expect to have their webs busted, and take it in their stride," White wrote.