My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
Christopher HitchensI'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
Christopher HitchensI'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
Christopher HitchensWhen the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.
Christopher Hitchens