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.

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

Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

It is a luxury to be understood.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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?

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.

Language is the archives of history.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.