Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You've heard it all right. People don't have cancer: They are reported to be battling cancer.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“My father had died, and very swiftly too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was seventy-nine. I am sixty-one. In whatever kind… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To accept the spread of cervical cancer in the name of god is no different, morally or intellectually, from sacrificing these women… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Like so many of life's varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of malignant cancer has a tendency to wear off.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
