Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
Diane AckermanOur sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.
Diane AckermanEveryone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane AckermanHome is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.
Diane Ackerman