A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
Annie DillardEvolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
Annie DillardWhat a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
Annie DillardNovels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
Annie DillardNature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.
Annie Dillard