“I don’t care how rich you are, I’m not coming to your party.”

The Times finds a great anecdote in its obit for Christopher Hitchens:

He became a staff writer and editor for The New Statesman in the late 1970s and fell in with a literary clique that included Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, James Fenton, Clive James and Ian McEwan. The group liked to play a game in which members came up with the sentence least likely to be uttered by one of their number. Mr. Hitchens’s was “I don’t care how rich you are, I’m not coming to your party.”

Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary – NYTimes.com

December 16, 2011