"The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.












Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.
More Christopher Hitchens quotes
"Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
"Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority ...
"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
"My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And any...
"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.
"The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the ...
"Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you...
"If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.