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

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

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

We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.