Christopher Hitchens

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s. ”

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. ”

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. ”

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps. ”

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. ”

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice. ”

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. ”

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. ”

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. ”

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. ”