What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.

The American vice is explanation.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...