[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

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