I got this book at Strand in New York: “the Quotable Hitchens––from Alcohol to Zionism”.
With a forword by Martin Amis.
On Generations:
“Tell me which decade you love, or hate, and I’ll tell you who and what you are.”
(“Empitomizing the Eighties,” Newsday, 12/30/90)
“I must say that I’ve always found the generational amphasis on the way that my youth was covered to be very annoying. There were a lot of other people born in April 1949, and I just don’t feel like I have anything in common with most of them.”
(Quoted in “Free Radical,” Reason magazine, November 2001)
On Clinton, Hillary Rodham and Rudy Giuliani
“They both ban smoking materials anywhere they can ban them (Mrs.Clinton having failed with the use of cigars in the White House).”
(“Party of Two,” Vanity Fair, December 1999)
On Schröder, Gerhard
“…Schröder is a man so sensitive that he recently sought an injunction against a London newspaper for printing speculation about his hair color and his notoriously volatile domestic life.”
(“Cowboy,” Slate, 1/27/03)
On Drinking
“It’s not true that you shouldn’t drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain.”
(Hitch-22 {New York:Twelve,2010},352)