Russell Hoban Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 4, 1925 - December 13, 2011
Birthday: February 4
Death: December 13
What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
source: Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black
topic: Pain, Smoking, Want, Killing Myself, Cigarette Smoke, Pipe Smoking, Tobacco, Cosy, Tobacco Smoking, Smoking A Pipe, Smoking Cigarettes
