Words pay no debts.

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?

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.

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

Language is the archives of history.

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

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

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

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

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.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

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.