Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it it's doomed to failure.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience of which the purpose is too deep going too deep in the blood and soul for mental explanation or description.

I am persuaded that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose it would render the design abortive.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death and to deny one is to deny the other.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?