“He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I certainly didn't concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I was to grow used to hearing, around New York, the annoying way in which people would say: 'Edward Said, such a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old friends… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this… — 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
