No one is immune from either taking the wrong action or not taking action at all, but the sense that something is completely out of a person's control is stronger in China.

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.

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

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.

I think the isolation in China also has to do with people's memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.