You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without noting that there's history, and that there's politics going on. To me, that's the same if you write about America. You don't have to write about politics, but the politics have to be present in the characters.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?

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

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.

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