God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.
Christopher HitchensIf waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
Christopher HitchensYou should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.
Christopher HitchensTo remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off
Christopher HitchensI have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
Christopher Hitchens