#see

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#commercials #give #haven #help #murder

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#bury #century #compulsion #days #give

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#although #bit #bryan #cheesy #ferry

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eternal #eternal life #good #horrible #i

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#anyone #away #books #done #family

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#any #anybody #believe #claims #does

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#approach #considered #culture #i #may

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#existence #me #point #seemed #talking

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#better #comes #cynicism #down #hard