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

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.

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

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

Your voice is so mellifluous that I can listen to you forever.

Corporate humans would be regarded as a cancerous growth on the Earth by nature.

If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.

Every library is a palace

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me...

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.