I'm not telling you to make the world better， because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it， not just to suffer it， not just to pass through it， but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it.

—Commencement address at the University of California， Riverside， 1975， Essayist， Joan Didion

我不是要你去把這個世界變得更好，因為我并不認為進步是生活必要的一部分。我只是告訴你要活在其中。不只是隱忍，不只是受苦，不只是經歷，而是要活在其中。去面對它、去試著了解它、勇敢生活、大膽嘗試，創造你自己的作品并以之為傲。

——1975年，加州大學河濱分校畢業致辭，瓊·狄迪恩，散文家