People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.
Annie DillardOld memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
Annie DillardThe life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
Annie DillardThere is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.
Annie Dillard