Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing
Christopher HitchensThe trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
Christopher HitchensHenry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
Christopher HitchensI've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.
Christopher Hitchens