The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
Annie DillardWhy do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
Annie DillardAlmost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
Annie DillardI think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
Annie Dillard