No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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