I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

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

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive. We are not on - even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?