I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
Annie DillardDoing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.
Annie DillardI woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
Annie DillardTonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.
Annie Dillard