The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.