The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them. 

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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?