Quotes of the Week

You don't have to perform [the ritual] nine times. The number of times depends on what clients have asked for. That woman only asked to change her fate for her relationships and career. But the model was different; she asked to change everything - her career, relationship, finances, and she wanted to get into show business.

Au Yeung Kwok-fu, a self-proclaimed Mao Shan practitioner, accused of unlawful sexual intercourse under false pretences, explaining to a judge why he needed to have sex more times with a 19-year-old model than another client

Mad Dog [Wong Yuk-man] and Long Hair [Leung Kwok-hung] only know how to wreak havoc.

Former radio agony aunt Pamela Pak Wan-kam (right), promising to run in a Legco by-election if the two lawmakers of the League of Social Democrats carry out their threat to resign

Paying ransoms to the Somali pirates is a bit like paying a hooker for sex. Everyone knows it is going on, but no one wants to talk about it, certainly not the details of what actually happens.

An unnamed Hong Kong industry official, explaining how the dirty business of ransoms works