Quotes from Christopher Hitchens

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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.

I vote and I do jury duty.

I was becoming post-ideological.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

You can only have one aim per debate.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

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.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

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.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

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.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

You have to choose your future regrets.