If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.