Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
Christopher HitchensReligion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.
Christopher HitchensFlaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.
Christopher HitchensAllow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.
Christopher HitchensKissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.
Christopher Hitchens