“One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in it will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that business proceeds from mysteries too recondite for you and me.”
JD
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
Joan Didion
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves � there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
Joan Didion
“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are”
Joan Didion
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
Joan Didion
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
Joan Didion