I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.
Ben HechtThat God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
Ben HechtThe movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
Ben HechtFor many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Ben Hecht