And then sometimes, Christopher Hitchens doesn't let me down. From his March Vanity Fair column:
"I'll be 54 in April, and everyone keeps asking how I do it. How I do what?...I hope they mean how do I manage to keep producing books, writing essays, making radio and television appearances at all hours, traveling all over the place with no sign of exhaustion, teaching classes, and giving lectures, while still retaining my own hair and teeth and a near-godlike physique which is the envy of many of my juniors. Sometimes, though, I suppose they mean how do I do all this and still drink enough every day to kill or stun the average mule?"