You have been my friend.

That in itself is a tremendous think.

I wove my webs for you because I liked you.

After all, what's a life, anyway?

We're born, we live a little while, we die.

A spider's life can't help being something of a mess,

with all this trapping and eating flies.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.

Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"

- E.B White.