In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?