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

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

We are powerful beyond imagination.

If journeys came with rulebooks, he'd probably just disobeyed every word.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

I think the internet and the web is just like a big consciousness of the planet, a big brain of the planet.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.