"You've been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you becoz I liked you. After all what's 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 the 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's Web" - E.B.WHITE