All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?