A small act is worth a million thoughts.

I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.