I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Words pay no debts.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language is the archives of history.

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.