Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)

by Joan Didion

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

“The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people,” she said. “The hardest is with one.”

She is the Madonna of the disaffected.

“Everybody says I’m politically naïve, and I am,” she says after a while. It is something she says frequently to people she does not know. “So are the people running politics, or we wouldn’t be in wars, would we.”

“And then I decided to flow with it, and that was that. Because once you drop acid with somebody you flash on, you see the whole world melt in her eyes.” “It’s stronger than anything in the world,” Sharon says. “Nothing can break it up,” Max says. “As long as it lasts.”