To say that, during the past three decades, the world would have been poorer, duller and altogether a smaller place without Hitchens and his writings would be to utter a cliche of the kind he despises. It would also be true. -- John Gray * New Statesman *He has no equal in contemporary Anglo American letters. -- Jason Cowley * Financial Times *One of the most stimulating thinkers and entertaining writers we have. -- Bill Keller * New York Times *Essays on everything... remind us what we've lost in Hitchens - someone to provoke assent, outrage, laughter and thought * Sunday Telegraph *Read it you must, partly as a tribute to a great life well lived, but mainly because it is so entertaining * Sunday Times *Hitchens at his most stylish, savage, literate and brilliant * Observer *