Hannity: You seem to be angry with religion, angry with God. Am I wrong in my perception? - Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens: And that's where it stops, or you think this creator cares about you too?

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.

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries.