Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

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.

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.