Christopher Hitchens

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

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. ”

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. ”

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ”

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. ”

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. ”

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

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' ”

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. ”

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. ”