Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions 1942 (via Boing Boing)
"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."
— Christopher Hitchens
"Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."
— Christopher Hitchens
"To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away."
— Christopher Hitchens
"Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and —since there is no other metaphor—also the soul."
— Christopher Hitchens
"[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens
"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay."
— Christopher Hitchens
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens
"The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement."
— Christopher Hitchens
"[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realise that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."
— Christopher Hitchens
Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review
"A wise man hears one word and understands two."
— Yiddish proverb
"Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain."
— Aristotle
"Money cannot purchase what the heart desires."
— Chinese Proverb
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
— Arthur Miller
