Didion

Famous quotes containing the word didion:

    Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)

    It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.
    —Joan Didion (b. 1934)

    The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
    —Joan Didion (b. 1934)