Hitch-22

“All those who have had similar or comparable experiences will recognize the problem at once: it is not possible for long to be just a little bit heretical.”

“An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he’s working on these days. “My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.” “Oh really, that’s interesting: one didn’t think there was a class system in the United States.” “Nobody does. That’s how it survives.””

“I sometimes feel that I should carry around some sort of rectal thermometer, with which to test the rate at which I am becoming an old fart.”

“I have learned to distrust Utopias and to prefers satires.”