The Wit and Mortality of Christopher Hitchens

I just breezed through a quick first reading of Christopher Hitchens' Mortality (Twelve, 2012).  The slim volume ends with some fragmentary notes of characteristic wit scribbled near the end.  My favorites:

Amazing how heart and lungs have held up: would have been healthier if I'd been more sickly. (88)

I'm not fighting or battling cancer -- it's fighting me.  (89)

Brave? Hah! Save it for a fight you can't [can?] run away from. (89)

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. (91) 

Larkin good on fear in "Aubade," with implied reproof to Hume and Lucretius for their stoicism. Fair enough in one way: atheists ought not to be offering consolation either. (92)

I reproduce Philip Larkin's poem in my Philip Larkin on Death.