Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them..

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries..

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun..

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away….