Quotes By Christopher Hitchens

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.

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.

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.

I vote and I do jury duty.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

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