Annie Dillard

"You don’t have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it."

- Annie Dillard

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

- Annie Dillard

"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

- Annie Dillard

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

- Annie Dillard

"Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall."

- Annie Dillard

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."

- Annie Dillard