Here are some great-lines from the book, Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life by Daniel Asa Rose:

I very much respect the fact that she misrepresented herself. It shows a native cunning that I appreciate.

“You are Jew?” I flag a cab. “Yes.” She stops me and lifts my hat. “But where you horn?” “Only about half of us have horns these days,” I say, ushering her inside the cab. “It’s part of a PR push. So where shall I drop you?”

“No problem, I will talk hard balls to you.”

“So I’m going to resume by thanking you again for the fake Cartier watch, and I’m going to tell you why it’s important. It’s a power prop to go along with my other power props that tell the world I’m a success.”

...the thought of the deed makes his eyes sparkle with happy menace.

When have I ever seen eyes so merry with deadliness?

Meanwhile the personal fusion between us, master and man, no longer even frightens me.

“But I share your zest for foreign experience,”

That was the sweetest revenge I was ever going to take.”