"We wake, if ever we wake at all, to mystery."
     Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatise our days, will...press upon our minds the deepest mysteryies so we may feel again their magesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than the power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered?"
     Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Annie Dillard quotes from THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas