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

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

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

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

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

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

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

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

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind.

If I could undo everything, " Tony said, "I would never have gone to that party. I was an idiot, Kelly, and it cost me the love of my life.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.

Public worship occurs when the people of God assemble for the express purpose of giving to the Lord the glory due His name and enjoying the joy of His promised special presence with His own people.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)