- I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.... Ben Hecht {view}
- Love is a hole in the heart.... Ben Hecht {view}
- We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.... Ben Hecht {view}