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

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

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

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.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

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

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?

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.