Christopher Hitchens

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

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

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

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.

I'm not a conservative of any kind.