"I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris"

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature"

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts"

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity"

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"