Quotes by : Joan Didion

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share....

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer....

My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still....

Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer....

We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed,....

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that....

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately....

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share....

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.