““Because so much of life to me has been about prolonging the moment. Keeping the argument going for another stage, keeping the dinner party alive for another hour. There’s no question that it’s an enhancing thing and that’s the life I’ve led for a long time. I can’t imagine what it would have been like otherwise,” [Hitchens] adds.”

– Christopher Hitchens: ‘My life is my writing … my children come later’ – The Globe and Mail