Christopher Hitchens, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers In The Public Sphere Quotes
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.
Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.
