“The smell of oil in the air was huge and furry.”

“On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.”

“the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...”

“Getting help from a guy like you is like hiring a pyromaniac to fix the oil-burner.”

“Bill could smell Its breath and it was a smell like exploded animals lying on the highway at midnight.”

“There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.”

“In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.”