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.

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

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

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

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.

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