I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.

Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.

Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

Wine has drowned more than the sea.

Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.