The accent part was a joke obviously, I like Hitchens too. I also like a portuguese personality called José Saramago, as a portuguese he is the only popular atheist I can recall and kind of an hero for portuguese atheists. He won the literature nobel prize once, and wrote some really disturbing books about religion, the church tried to make them illegal, they failed redundantly.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you