The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. – 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