Christopher Quotes

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.

I don't need to work.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy

They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

Compliment but do not covet.

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

...she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil.

How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman.

Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.

She laughed. My favorite music.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.