Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

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

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.