"I know what's coming, I know no one beats these odds. It's a matter of getting used to that, growing up and realising that you're expelled from your mother's uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. It's a matter of how you use up the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way. And try not to do anything dastardly to your fellow creatures."
Christopher Hitchens said that absolutely plastered, on the side of a road, recorded by a fan of his on a camera phone. It takes a very special intellect to come up with quite a worthy life's mantra in such a state. Hitch was/is a great influence on my writing, my thinking, and my perspective on the Universe. I'll miss him greatly.
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I miss him so much as well. What a mind. I have this exact quote on the T shirt I have on right now. What a mind. Wow... Australia - just noticed. I will be there for the Celebration of Reason conference in April.
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