But when I dont smoke I scarcely feel as if Im living. I dont feel as if Im living unless Im killing myself. – Russell Hoban
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you dont make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. – Russell Hoban
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. – Russell Hoban
When you suffer an attack of nerves youre being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? – Russell Hoban
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly. – George Borrow