I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues. - Joan Didion

It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?

You see the point. I want to tell you the truth, and already I have told you about the wide rivers.

When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast.