Ben HechtThinkers

Ezra Pound is the exquisite showman minus the show.

A Genius is like gold in the mine when in his own country.

Journalism is no more capable of helping one determine what is going on in the world than is telling time by watching the second hand of the clock.

Journalism is a way of finding out what's going on that is much like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Love is a hole in the heart.

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

Ostentation is a kind of begging. Like the poor begger, he too is looking for alms, only of envy rather than of pity.

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

The Song is a little house where our hearts once lived.

A Starlet is any girl under thirty in Hollywood who is not regularly employed in a brothel.

Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.