Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.

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

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive. We are not on - even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.