You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.