For the party, the Beijing Games are the biggest political happening of 2008. Everything revolves around them. This will be a huge celebration for the President Hu Jintao and the Premier Wen Jiabao.

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

I have no enemies and no hatred.

Life is priceless even to an ant.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interaction, rather than huge injustices.

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!