(as presented by critic Elizabeth Drew):
“Life never builds itself into the convenient symmetry of a plot. Life is the quality of the immediate present as we live it from moment to moment. Experience is made from the silt of innumerable moments of consciousness, fusing the present with memories of the past; blending thought and action and sensation; expanding into the widest contemplation of the human situation in its universal aspects or contracting into the observation of some small objects around us, or into fragments of talk, gestures, some fleeting association. It’s all discontinuous, inconclusive, fugitive, flickering. This, at last, is life!”