Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

