I have no enemies and no hatred.

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.

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.

Now the entire world has its eyes on China.

We only have one person to blame, and that's each other.

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.