I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

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

At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.