When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
Christopher HitchensHeroยญism breaks its heart, and ideยญalยญism its back, on the intranยญsiยญgence of the credยญuยญlous and the mediocre, manipยญuยญlated by the cynยญiยญcal and the corrupt.
Christopher HitchensThe struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
Christopher HitchensI still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
Christopher Hitchens