Ben Hecht Quotes

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.

We trotted, coach-dog fashion, at the heels of the human race, our tails awag.