“Love is a hole in the heart.” — Ben Hecht Quote

“Love is a hole in the heart.”

“I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.”

“I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.”

“A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.”

“A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.”

“The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.”

“We're a miserably violent species. But there's a complication, which is we don't hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it's the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it's the right kind of violence, we love it.”

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”

“Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.”

“The ear is the avenue to the heart.”

“Stolen kisses are always sweetest.”

“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.”