There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
Ben HechtThey're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
Ben HechtPeople's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
Ben HechtTrying 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 HechtLove's the only thing I've thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That's what I always dreamed of, of meeting somebody and falling in love. And when that remarkable thing happened, I was going to recite poetry to her for hours about how her heart's an angel's wing and her hair the strings of a heavenly harp. Instead I got drunk and hollered at her and called her a harpy.
Ben Hecht