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.
– Ben Hecht
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
– Ben Hecht
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
– Ben Hecht
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
– Ben Hecht
Love is a hole in the heart.
– Ben Hecht
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
– Ben Hecht
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
– Ben Hecht
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.
– Ben Hecht
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
– Ben Hecht
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
– Ben Hecht
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.
– Ben Hecht
We trotted, coach-dog fashion, at the heels of the human race, our tails awag.
– Ben Hecht
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.