Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchenswas an English-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, and Vanity Fair. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays, on a range of subjects, including politics, literature, and religion. A staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, his confrontational style of debate made him...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 April 1949
CountryUnited States of America
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.