Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.
Christopher HitchensReligion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
Christopher HitchensThe Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
Christopher HitchensAuthors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
Christopher HitchensEveryone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders. They're supposed to be grateful. They can never for a moment not be afforded this wonderful protection. The father who will never go away. The father who will never quit caring for them.
Christopher Hitchens