People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

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.

Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.