chance of ultimate possibility

"the chance of ultimate possibility kept repeating itself in his head, a mad little chant that would not stop, nor did he want it to ... everything is chance, and chance is everything ... most people refused to believe that, because chance frightened them. But that was only ignorance.

chance contained every possibility. of course, some of it might be bad--that was what the ignorant dwelled on, and it was what frightened them--but a heartbeat away from what might be bad, unthinkably bad, was what might be unthinkably great, a bliss that even the gods would envy."

~Harry Crews, Celebration