I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

Allow 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.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.