Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.