“I lay a little while, naked, mottled, sallow, emaciated, smoking a cigarette that should have been postcoital but was not.”

“Parents should worry if their children haven't been arrested by the time they turn sixteen. Being a juvenile delinquent is a birthright and as much a part of healthy adolescence as smoking cigarettes or getting pimples.”

“While others used the staircase, he used the elevator to stardom. I don’t think any other actor in cinema made cigarette smoking a such an asset to his repertoire.”

“You remind me of a smoked cigarette.”

“[when asked about cigarettes] I don't recommend them… but I smoke them.”

“we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.”

“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another…”

“A cigarette only takes a certain amount of time to smoke and though this takes time it seems to take less and less with each one and you can only smoke so many, there comes a time when you have to stop, when you just cant light the next one... at least not for a while.”

“Every word I never spoke dies like a spark smothered in smoke pulled from the glow of a shitty cigarette.”

“I never swore as a kid. Honestly. Never. I never smoked a cigarette and I never tasted alcohol until I got to Bible College.”