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.

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

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.

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.

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.