There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
Christopher HitchensEverybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
Christopher HitchensHeroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.
Christopher HitchensOne of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
Christopher HitchensOnly the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher HitchensThere are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.
Christopher Hitchens