Christopher Hitchens: the Last Interview: And Other Conversations | 
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...look it up! So I said, "No. I'm going to keep it, because it's an important word and it's actually not condescending to Americans in the least. You have to condescend far more by finding the 50-word substitute. No, I won't change it. Fuck you. And I don't mean to publish in your magazine, either, for that matter."
Hitchens once wrote a line that has almost gained the status of philosophical epigram or even scientific dictum: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." Although it echoes Wittgenstein's famous injunction regarding the ineffable--"Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent"--Hitchens's version is less a "no entry" sign than a civic reminder to place rubbish in the bin.
On Mother Teresa:
Very rightly is it said that she tends to the dying, because if you were doing anything but dying she hasn't really got much to offer.
