“I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.”

“I don't like girls who wear lots of make-up and you can't see their face. Some girls are beautiful but insecure and look much better without the make-up, but decide to put loads on. I like girls with nice eyes and a nice smile.”

“A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about.”

“I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.”

“I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.”

“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”

“Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.”

“The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.”

“Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don’t like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.”

“She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.”