What do you most value in your friends?Their continued exist... - Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

"What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime."

"Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray."

"What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition."

"I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me."

"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."