Quotes from Christopher Hitchens

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

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.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off