Bei Dao Quotes

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence

freedom is nothing but the distancebetween the hunter and the hunted