I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.
Joan DidionThe secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.
Joan DidionBurroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.
Joan DidionIt's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.
Joan Didion