Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
Diane AckermanWhich is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?
Diane Ackerman... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
Diane AckermanAn animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.
Diane Ackerman