I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore Vidal's, because it did seem to me as if I had left this planet completely to go on this visit to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and it was as if coming back from another spatial body altogether.
Christopher HitchensThe suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
Christopher Hitchens[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
Christopher HitchensReligion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.
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