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

“Can I still smoke my cigarettes and have my coffee”

Ryan Adams (1974) American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter

“You remind me of a smoked cigarette.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Flappers and Philosophers

“I've had every known chemical--cocaine, booze--and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

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

Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter

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

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“It was the poor part of town—small houses and courts with mailboxes full of spiders, mailboxes hanging by one nail, old women inside rolling cigarettes and chewing tobacco and humming to their canaries and watching you, an idiot lost in the rain.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

“The word for smoke should look like smoke -- the word for rain should look like rain…”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

“Since Sputnik, the earth has been wrapped in a dome-like blanket or bubble. Nature ended.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …