Im afraid the SSs relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. – Christopher Hitchens
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. – Christopher Hitchens

Im afraid the SSs relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. – Christopher Hitchens
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. – Christopher Hitchens
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other peoples hope. – Christopher Hitchens
When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest, and so forth, I switch off quite early. – Christopher Hitchens
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. – Wislawa Szymborska