It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento. Joan Didion
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down. Joan Didion
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Joan Didion
I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally. Joan Didion
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent. Joan Didion
I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical. Joan Didion
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
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
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. Joan Didion
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