Annie Dillard

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"Priest: "No, not if you did not know."Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you."

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"Priest: "No, not if you did not know."Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you."

"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them."

"The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all."