Cheap booze is a false economy. - Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

"What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence."

"I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves."

"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."

"What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition."

"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."