“Time stops for the duration of a cigarette: when you’re smoking, you’re acutely present to yourself; you step outside the unconscious rush of life. This is why the condemned are allowed a final cigarette... it’s a lot easier to leave the world if you’re certain that you have really been in it.”

“Time stops for the duration of a cigarette: when you’re smoking, you’re acutely present to yourself; you step outside the unconscious rush of life. This is why the condemned are allowed a final cigarette... it’s a lot easier to leave the world if you’re certain that you have really been in it.”

— Jonathan Franzen