The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

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.

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

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.

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

The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.