"It was darker than a carload of assholes" (George V. Higgins)
"I lit a cigarette [that] tasted like a plumber's handkerchief" (Raymond
Chandler)
-King's favorite similes, Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,
(New York: Simon & Shuster, 2000), 177. (recorded 12/26/2002)