"Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language."

“Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.”

“There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet.”

“I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with the system that is oppressing him. Many whites flatter themselves with the idea that the Negro male's lust and desire for the white dream girl is purely an esthetic attraction, but nothing could be further from the truth. His motivation is often of such a bloody, hateful, bitter, and malignant nature that whites would really be hard pressed to find it flattering.”

Source : Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.49, Macmillan

“Cars for me are like a piece of art.”

“I was never into candy and games and clowns.”

“We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.”

Source : Speech on Democratic Development, Pluralism and Civil Society delivered at the Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, www.akdn.org. April 07, 2005.

“You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.”