My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they havent elected a new one. Theres no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I dont miss it. – Christopher Hitchens
I dont think consensus-building politics is what Im meant to be doing. – 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
Theres been some research in cognitive science, Im told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, its white noise. – Christopher Hitchens