Quotes from Christopher Hitchens

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

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.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

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

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16