Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation—between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive,
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind (ed. Vintage, 2014) - ISBN: 9780385351324