Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

Why do I write about China? That is a very good question. I think there are questions about China that I haven't been able to answer. The reason I write is that there are questions to which I want to find answers - or I want to find questions beyond those questions.

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.

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

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.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.