More From Annie Dillard
- "There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."
- "I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."
- "There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."
More In Age
- "‘Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age’ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age."― Christopher Hitchens
- "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."― Robertson Davies
- "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."― Will Rogers