No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
Source: The Price Of The Ticket, The Devil Finds Work, sct. 1 (1985; first published 1976).
-- James Baldwin, (Aug 2 1924-1987), US novelist, essayist; He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.