Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.
The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
Not everyone is as nice as us.