The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

she will never grow old, her heart is too beautiful.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.