There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.

- Joan Didion

What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it…

- Joan Didion

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

- Joan Didion

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

- Joan Didion

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

- Joan Didion

We are the stories we tell ourselves

- Joan Didion

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

- 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

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

- Joan Didion