My Friend Joan

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Joan Didion

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

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? Joan Didion

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. Joan Didion

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. Joan Didion