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

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

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.

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.