Christopher Hitchens Imagine Quotations

Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. "All the News That's Fit to Print," it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture. I myself check every day to make sure that the bright, smug, pompous, idiotic claim is still there.

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine.

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.