Christopher Hitchens Was A Wit, A Charmer,

The Greatest Thing That Prepared Me For Editing Vanity Fair Was Having Four Kids Because You Just Learn To Subjugate Your Ego With The Greater Interest In Mind.

Only Institutions That Go About The Old-fashioned Business Of Taking In Deposits From Customer A And Lending Them Out To Customer B Should Be Called Banks. The Rest Should Call Themselves What They Are. 'parlors' Would Be Appropriate, Or 'dens' - Words More Suitable To Venerable Betting Pursuits.

I Think The Movie Business Is In Trouble. It's All Movies That You've Seen Before. Everything's A Remake; They Want Things That Are Familiar Rather Than Things That Surprise You.

I Walk Down The Street And People Don't Go, 'my God, There He Is.' I Lead As Normal A Life As You Can Lead In New York City.

In 2004, I Wrote 'what We've Lost,' A Book About The Bush Administration. It Sold Only Reasonably Well, In Part, I Think, Because The Book Was A Horrific Downer, An Unrelenting Account Of The Administration's Actions, Bungles, Deceptions, Half-truths, Untruths, And Downright Corruptions.