She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan, isn't it? With mass destruction, pitiless extermination, annihilation going on all the time. And all of this set in motion on a scale that’s absolutely beyond our imagination, in order that the pope can tell people not to jerk off.

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.

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

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.