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.

Quote by Ben Hecht

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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much...

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much...

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow...

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow...

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At...

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At...

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who...

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who...

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like...

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like...