The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
Ben HechtInnocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.
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