Diane Ackerman

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!