Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Language is essentially tribal, so jargon can actually be a really good thing because it unites people.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

There is something very easy about women's friendships that you don't see as often with men. We all know examples of this, when women will just call each other up or drop a line, not with anything specific to say.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.

When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

I have a very small group of friends that I've had - the three of them - for the majority of my life.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Humans bond to families but not necessarily to neighbors.

The associations inside the group become more important than those outside.

There's a difference between being friendly and being friends.

I'm really close with Dave Coulier and his wife Melissa. My family and I go over there for barbeques, for dinners, Super Bowl parties.

I really savor the times of me and all my best friends and family members getting together.

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism. If there's a group of lawyers, they have their own slang. If there's a group of doctors, they have their own slang, and so on.

I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?

I am not anti-European. I have many friends and acquaintances who are Europeans.

I'm very close with Brian Davis, Thomas Hill, and Marty Clark.

The fact is many of these guys whom I was supposed to be seeing are my buddies. I've always been the bum chum kinda girl.

Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.