Famous Joan Didion Quotes & Sayings

67Parents are Paradise. — Self

But I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one. I think that if he titters at male writers who wear invisible skirts he does so at his eternal peril. I'll say no more on the subject. This is precisely the sort of confidence that can be easily and juicily Abused. — J.D. Salinger

Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you. — Laura Anderson Kurk

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable. — Ruth Reichl

ngaobera:
a slight inflammation of the throat produced by screaming too much. — Howard Rheingold

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. — Deval Patrick

I think when you sit alone with your brain too much, your own brain starts to rebel against you. — Christopher Titus

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface. — Cathy Maxwell

It is good for a man not to touch a woman... — Anonymous

You are not a spiritual being in a monkey body you are a monkey pretending to be a spiritual being controlling itself. — Christopher Zzenn Loren

For I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool ... — Herman Melville

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache. — Ivan Panin