Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

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

It was. It will never be again. Remember.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Attitude is your number one weapon against mediocrity.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

We can invent only with memory.

Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

I love the rowdiness, I love how crazy it is during the day. There's a business about it that's great. There's never a dull moment, so it really inspires the music I write.

Satan has his sights on the United States of America.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.