“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 Books
“The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.”Ben Hecht book PerfidyPerfidy Books
“Gibbons is a man full of pain and violence. On this night, there is a Witch's Sabbath in his heart. Storms are blowing his world to bits and great troubles are pounding him on a reef.”Ben Hecht Angels Over Broadway (1940) Screenplays
“Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, build them in with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them and, hello, America, hang on to your lights, they're the only lights in the world.”Ben Hecht Foreign Correspondent (1940) Screenplays