David Lynch was a visionary director of the strange and the surreal – but what we hear in his films is as important as what we see.

For the iconic writer-director, who was diagnosed with emphysema before his death last week at 78, cigarettes were more than a habit—they were a form of meditation, a symbol of the art life, and an endless source of visual poetry.

It gave you a glimpse of a bizarre, fantastical world living right beneath the surface of everyday life — a very queer world that you maybe never wanted to leave. There have been passionate debates about the potential queerness of characters on “Twin Peaks” for decades.