I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
Annie DillardWhen I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
Annie DillardOut of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.
Annie DillardWhy are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
Annie Dillard