I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Knowledge is the physical manifestation of consciousness.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.