"I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck."

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I ... had what Kierkegaard called 'the sickness of infinitude,' wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I was embarked upon a search, and scarcely a clue as to what I might be after. I only knew that at the bottom of each breath there was a hollow place that needed to be filled.

— Peter Matthiessen