And I have learned now to live with it, learned when to expect it, how to outwit it, even how to regard it, when it does come, as more friend than lodger. We have reached a certain understanding, my migraine and I.
Joan DidionOn the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.
Joan DidionLet me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
Joan DidionMarriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.
Joan Didion