When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.
Christopher HitchensMy chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
Christopher HitchensThanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
Christopher HitchensReligion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
Christopher HitchensWhat they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.
Christopher Hitchens