Christopher Hitchens Quotes And Sayings

It's Not At All Good When Your Cancer Is 'Palpable' From The Outside. Especially When, As At This Stage, They Didn't Even Know Where The Primary Source Was. Carcinoma Works Cunningly From The Inside Out. Detection And Treatment Often Work More Slowly And Gropingly, From The Outside In.

I Was Becoming Post-ideological.

The Concept Of Loneliness And Exile And Self-sufficiency Continually Bucks Me Up.

Trust Is Not The Same As Faith. A Friend Is Someone You Trust. Putting Faith In Anyone Is A Mistake.

I'm Crepuscular.

I Still Think Like A Marxist In Many Ways.

Primate And Elephant And Even Pig Societies Show Considerable Evidence Of Care For Others, Parent-child Bonding, Solidarity In The Face Of Danger, And So On.

I've Had Some Dark Nights Of The Soul, Of Course, But Giving In To Depression Would Be A Sellout, A Defeat.

I Must Have Been One Of The Least Surprised People On Earth On September 11. I Felt Very Braced For That. I Knew Something Like That Was Going To Come.

I'm Afraid The Ss's Relationship With The Catholic Church Is Something The Church Still Has To Deal With And Does Not Deny.

Solidarity Is An Attitude Of Resistance, I Suppose, Or It Should Be.

If You Look At Any Muslim Society And You Make A Scale Of How Developed They Are, And How Successful The Economy Is, It's A Straight Line. It Depends On How Much They Emancipate Their Women.

You Notice How Liberals Keep Saying, 'If Only Islam Would Have A Reformation' - It Can't Have One. It Says It Can't. It's Extremely Dangerous In That Way.

'Bombing Afghanistan Back Into The Stone Age' Was Quite A Favourite Headline For Some Wobbly Liberals. The Slogan Does All The Work. But An Instant's Thought Shows That Afghanistan Is Being, If Anything, Bombed Out Of The Stone Age.

I Became A Journalist Partly So That I Wouldn't Ever Have To Rely On The Press For My Information.

The Suicide-bombing Community Is Not Absolutely 100 Percent Religious, But It Is Pretty Nearly 100 Percent Religious.

I Feel Upsettingly De-natured. If Penelope Cruz Were One Of My Nurses, I Wouldn't Even Notice.

My Own View Is That This Planet Is Used As A Penal Colony, Lunatic Asylum And Dumping Ground By A Superior Civilisation, To Get Rid Of The Undesirable And Unfit. I Can't Prove It, But You Can't Disprove It Either.

There Are All Kinds Of Stupid People That Annoy Me But What Annoys Me Most Is A Lazy Argument.

To 'Choose' Dogma And Faith Over Doubt And Experience Is To Throw Out The Ripening Vintage And To Reach Greedily For The Kool-aid.

Beautiful Sentences Pop Into My Head. Beautiful Sentences That Aren't Always Absolutely Accurate. Then, I Have To Choose Between The Beautiful Sentence And Being Absolutely Accurate. It Can Be A Difficult Choice.

Like The Experience Of Warfare, The Endurance Of Grave Or Terminal Illness Involves Long Periods Of Tedium And Anxiety, Punctuated By Briefer Interludes Of Stark Terror And Pain.

When You Hear People Demanding That The Ten Commandments Be Displayed In Courtrooms And Schoolrooms, Always Be Sure To Ask Which Set. It Works Every Time.

Say 'Toronto' Or 'Ontario,' And The Immediate Thought Associations Are With A Somewhat Blander Version Of North America: A United States With A Welfare Regime And A More Polite Street Etiquette, And The Additionally Reassuring Visage Of Queen Elizabeth On The Currency.

Lovers Often Invest Their First Meetings With Retrospective Significance, As If To Try To Conjure The Elements Of The Numinous Out Of The Stubborn Witness Of The Everyday.

Many Parents And Teachers Have Become Irritated To The Point Of Distraction At The Way The Weed-style Growth Of 'Like' Has Spread Through The Idiom Of The Young. And It's True That In Some Cases The Term Has Become Simultaneously A Crutch And A Tic, Driving Out The Rest Of The Vocabulary As Candy Expels Vegetables.

When Caroline Kennedy Managed To Say 'You Know' More Than 200 Times In An Interview With The New York 'Daily News,' And On 130 Occasions While Talking To 'The New York Times' During Her Uninspired Attempt To Become A Hereditary Senator, She Proved, Among Other Things, That She Was (A) Middle-aged And (B) Middle Class.

It's Surprising To Me How Many Of My Friends Send Christmas Cards, Or Holiday Cards, Including My Atheist And Secular Friends.

Ronald Reagan Used To Alarm Other Constituencies By Speaking Freely About The End Times Foreshadowed In The Bible.

Just As The Humble, Unassuming, Assenting 'O.k.' Has Deposed The More Affirmative 'Yes,' So The Little Cringe And Hesitation And Approximation Of 'Like' Are A Help To Young People Who Are Struggling To Negotiate The Shoals And Rapids Of Ethnic Identity, The Street, And General Correctness.

In One Way, I Suppose, I Have Been 'In Denial' For Some Time, Knowingly Burning The Candle At Both Ends And Finding That It Often Gives A Lovely Light.

The Violence In The Bible Is Appalling.

Every Now And Then I Will See A Word As If For The First Time, And Suddenly Appreciate That Evian Is 'Naive' Spelled Backward, Or That Bosnia Is An Anagram Of 'Bonsai.'

I Don't Think Romney Is Wacky At All, But Religion Makes Intelligent People Say And Do Wacky Things, Believe And Affirm Crazy Things. Left On His Own, Romney Would Never Have Said Something Like The Garden Of Eden Was In Missouri, And Will Be Again.

When I Go To The Clinic Next And Sit With A Tube In My Arm And Watch The Poison Go In, I'm In An Attitude Of Abject Passivity. It Doesn't Feel Like Fighting At All; It Just Feels Like Submitting.

Ronald Reagan Used To Alarm His Soviet Counterparts By Saying That Surely They'd Both Unite Against An Invasion From Mars.

Of Course, I Do Everything For Money.

I'm Not Particularly A Feminist, But If You Get Women Off The Animal Cycle Of Reproduction And Give Them Some Say In How Many Children They'll Have, Immediately The Floor Will Rise.

Owners Of Dogs Will Have Noticed That, If You Provide Them With Food And Water And Shelter And Affection, They Will Think You Are God. Whereas Owners Of Cats Are Compelled To Realize That, If You Provide Them With Food And Water And Affection, They Draw The Conclusion That They Are God.

I Don't Think Consensus-building Politics Is What I'm Meant To Be Doing.

The Koran Shows Every Sign Of Being Thrown Together By Human Beings, As Do All The Other Holy Books.

Henry Kissinger Should Have The Door Shut In His Face By Every Decent Person And Should Be Shamed, Ostracized And Excluded.

Ronald Reagan Said That He Sought A Star Wars Defense Only In Order To Share The Technology With The Tyrants Of The U.s.s.r.

Yes, I, Well, When I Write, As Often As I Can, I Try To Write As If I'm Talking To People. It Doesn't Always Work, And One Shouldn't Always Try It, But I Try And Write As If I Am Talking, And Trying To Engage The Reader In Conversation.

Chemotherapy Isn't Good For You. So When You Feel Bad, As I Am Feeling Now, You Think, 'Well That Is A Good Thing Because It's Supposed To Be Poison. If It's Making The Tumor Feel This Queasy, Then I'm Ok With It.'

My Father Had Died, And Very Swiftly, Too, Of Cancer Of The Esophagus. He Was 79. I Am 61. In Whatever Kind Of A 'Race' Life May Be, I Have Very Abruptly Become A Finalist.

To Terrify Children With The Image Of Hell... To Consider Women An Inferior Creation. Is That Good For The World?

Even With All The Advantages Of Retrospect, And A Lot Of Witnesses Dead And Gone, You Can't Make Your Life Look As If You Intended It Or You Were Consistent. All You Can Show Is How You Dealt With Various Hands.

I've Proved To Be As Difficult To Convert As I Am To Hypnotize.

For The People Who Ostensibly Wish Me Well Or Are Worried About My Immortal Soul, I Say I Take It Kindly.