I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him — Joan Didion
Life changes fast, … life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. — Joan Didion
The secret point of money and power in america is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power’s sake… — Joan Didion
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something — Joan Didion
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. — Joan Didion
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs. — Joan Didion
To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: — Joan Didion
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. — Joan Didion
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great — Joan Didion