The cab smelled like curry, cigarettes, and body odor, and the safety glass between me and the driver had cracks in it.

He lighted a cigarette, and in the curling smoke of it caught visions of his English mother, and wondered if she would understand how her son could love a woman who cried because she could not be skipper of a schooner in the cannibal isles.

Cigarette’s make you look cool

If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.

I met the surgeon general – he offered me a cigarette.

You know what I think you get scared of more – especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands for so long – you start to associate certain behavior with the music. It’s like people associate having a cigarette with having a cup of coffee, or lunch.

A woman is an occasional pleasure, but a cigar is always a smoke.

I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

I don’t remember lighting this cigarette and I don’t remember if I’m here alone or waiting for someone.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.