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

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.

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

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

Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you

Make a little effort to give up your insignificant quarrels and eventually a better world will follow.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

Jack the Ripper – media myth arising when clever individual murderers concocted a monster so as to avoid suspicion.

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.