The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. – Christopher Hitchens
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. – Christopher Hitchens
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. – Christopher Hitchens
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’ – Christopher Hitchens
I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. – Christopher Hitchens
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul. – Christopher Hitchens
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. – Christopher Hitchens
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. – Christopher Hitchens
All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t. – Christopher Hitchens
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’ – Christopher Hitchens
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. – Christopher Hitchens
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope. – Christopher Hitchens
The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself. – Christopher Hitchens
I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. – Christopher Hitchens
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. – Christopher Hitchens
For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. – Christopher Hitchens
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. – Christopher Hitchens
The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures. – Christopher Hitchens
The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. – Christopher Hitchens
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. – Christopher Hitchens
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. – Christopher Hitchens
Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. – Christopher Hitchens
