The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton's plane.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

Growing up as a comedian, the first thing you dream of is having your own album, but even more than that, I always wanted that hour special on cable.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

Without [hatred] Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.