Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. - Diane Ackerman. View more images...

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet. - Diane Ackerman. View more images...

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. - Diane Ackerman. View more images...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman. View more images...

Success produces success, just as money produces money. - Diane Ackerman. View more images...