The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.
The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.