I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what truth might be, and therefore begin to swallow whatever they're fed. I think that's something that the Chinese have learned very well. They've even managed to persuade quite large segments of the population that the martyrs of Tiananmen were actually an anti-national element. People don't view them as heroes, they see them as troublemakers. There you have a combination of censorship of truth creating a new truth, which is the lie, but it's not seen as such.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.