Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion
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
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