That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.