Christopher Hitchens's most valuable asset was his scathing wit. From his famous digs at religion to his humiliating takedown of Sarah Palin — and even some snippy comments aimed at cats — read the brilliant writer's most incendiary jabs.
On Sarah Palin: "She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director."
—The Leonard Lopate Show, June 2010
On hypocrites: "Nothing optional — from homosexuality to adultery — is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate."
—God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 2007
On women: "Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny?"
—Vanity Fair, 2007
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