The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
Christopher HitchensReligion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.
Christopher HitchensWe live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
Christopher HitchensI don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
Christopher HitchensTo be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.
Christopher Hitchens