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

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

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

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

Words pay no debts.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

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?

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