Nature both creates and destroys. — Xiaolu Guo

"We now live in an age in which we are all information rich and experience poor."

"State censorship was an obvious assault on our creativity, but few Chinese writers actually acknowledge the serious and endemic issue of self-censorship. For me it was as clear as the operation of the states apparatus – without self-censorship an artist in China would get nowhere and had no voice."

"I Am China is a parallel story about two Chinese lovers in exile – the external and internal exile that I had felt since leaving China."

"[About Yayoi Kusama:] Classifying her work as art brut is simplistic and unfair. For me she represents the history of womankind. A sexually violated, politically annihilated, socially ignored and emotionally deprived feminine life. One of her works is entitled Self Obliteration, which seems to sum up a womans utter despair, in life, in art, in anything real in the human world."

"My growing environmental awareness only added more fuel to the argument for having no children. And the logic of never-ending consumption didnt just harm the environment, it killed people too."