Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn't promote it. There isn't a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.

Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.