Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in China, I was writing for myself, so that's the process of writing for myself that was the most important thing.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

It's important to have IT knowledge; it's important to increase every government agency's IT capability.

Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.