...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.