You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

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

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.