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

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

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

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

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.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.