Hitchens Dead
“Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that — or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation — is worth it to me,” he told Charlie Rose in a television interview in 2010, adding that it was “impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.”
(From the New York Times obituary on the death last night of Christoper Hitchens, talking about the what used to be called ‘dissolute’ life that likely led to his cancer. Thank goodness he was unrepentant about the life he lived … and his atheism.)
