When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

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

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.