There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. – Christopher Hitchens
I dont think consensus-building politics is what Im meant to be doing. – Christopher Hitchens
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. – Christopher Hitchens
I dont think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. – Christopher Hitchens
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because its a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play. – Sloane Crosley