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. Ben Hecht
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. Ben Hecht
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. Ben Hecht
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them – as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. Ben Hecht
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. Ben Hecht