Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
Christopher HitchensA lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
Christopher HitchensI didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.
Christopher HitchensI've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Christopher Hitchens