Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.
Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.
If I didn't self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn't be effective at all.
What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?
I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.
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.