16 December 2011

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods” - Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011), The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer

Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely, With Wit: "He took pains to emphasize that he had not revised his position on atheism, articulated in his best-selling 2007 book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, although he did express amused appreciation at the hope, among some concerned Christians, that he might undergo a late-life conversion.

He also professed to have no regrets for a lifetime of heavy smoking and drinking.
'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'".


(2011)

2 comments:

pcristov said...

há uns poucos insubstituíveis. e isto tudo fica um bocadinho mais difícil sem ele.

João Lisboa said...

Yup. Temos de nos desenrascar.