from On Humor

  "Life is a continual flux which we try to stop, to fix in stable and determined forms, both inside and outside ourselves . . . The forms in which we seek to stop, to fix in ourselves this constant flux are the concepts, the ideals with which we would like consistently to comply, all the fictions we create for ourselves, the conditions, the state in which we tend to stabilize ourselves.  But within ourselves, in what we call the soul and is the life in us, the flux continues."  Luigi Pirandello