I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

I vote and I do jury duty.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

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

It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.