I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.

I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.

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

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

I never had a sense of home.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.