I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.