Diane Ackerman Men Quotations

Which 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?

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.