Ben Cela

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula