Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, Well, good on you. See you there. – 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
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you cant fly home. – Christopher Hitchens
Im not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children theyll have, immediately the floor will rise. – Christopher Hitchens
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, Im still always moving. – Gus Van Sant