"We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home.
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times."
— Annie Dillard (Holy the Firm)

"The real and proper question is: why is it beutiful?"
— Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. "
— Annie Dillard

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen