I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

In China, your freedom is always limited, but this limitation applies to almost everyone. If someone does injustice to you, though, you have to find a way to avenge yourself - even by illegal measures. In a sense, injustice is more personal. This idea has always been in Chinese history. I think we read about freedom of speech, or lack of freedom of speech, in China so often. But I don't think people here in America think about how justice, or the idea of justice, is so important in a Chinese setting. It's probably more important than freedom of speech in the Chinese mindset at this moment.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

There are people who are willing to work within the system, and people who don't want to work with the system at all.

The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is rinsed clean from the ground; his sister will think of him but soon she will forget him, too. He will live on only in Han's memory, a child punished not for his own insincerity but someone else's disbelief.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.