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

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

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

Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

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

Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.

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