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.

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

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

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

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

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.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.