Quotes from Joan Didion

Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.