Annie DillardThinkers

The Afternoon is best spent. You can't take it with you.

Ecstasy is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

A Myth is a story about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against Gods.

The Novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

The Sea is always pronouncing something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper which we cannot ever quite make out.

Sunlight has a muscular energy corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Yoga is a science, an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end.