Quotes by Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
