Christopher Hitchens
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. It is impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late nights, without that second bottle.
In whatever kind of a ‘race’ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
I personally want to ‘do’ death in the active and not the passive and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
Politicians do bad things because they are bad men. The idea that good men can do terrible things (even for good reasons), and bad men good things, does not enter into this particular moral universe.