It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.
Joan DidionI closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
Joan DidionIn terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.
Joan Didion