Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff. Joan Didion afternoonbrilliantcoast Change image and share on social
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins. Joan Didion analysisangelask Change image and share on social
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. Joan Didion americandifficulteuropean Change image and share on social
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it. Joan Didion feelstrengthsuppose Change image and share on social
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me. Joan Didion bewilderinterestmiddle Change image and share on social
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Joan Didion eargrammarpiano Change image and share on social
I never think people are too careful with me. Joan Didion carefulpeople Change image and share on social
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. Joan Didion actualdisparateexperience share on social
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion acceptliferespect Change image and share on social
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? Joan Didion choicedevoidfree Change image and share on social
