I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.