"It is encouraging to see banned books on the internet–a contribution of internet technology to mankind. The reason internet is so great is that it broke various kinds of boundaries, like a soaring bird, or a blooming flower. Intellectual thinking should not comply to authoritarianism. Symbols of technological advancement such as Apple should not yield to the Chinese Communist Party."

"I think kids get disappointed when acts are cancelled, but they’re also used to it. They’re used to shows being censored, movies being censored, they’re used to things being pulled at the last minute for stupid reasons."

"I want to dedicate this award to the more than one hundred people, who have bathed their bodies in fire and their families."

"I don’t think it is about right or wrong. That is the only thing we can do without hurting other people. That’s the best way to get the world’s attention."

"When I’m painting, I’m thinking: ‘Enough, enough, don’t do this any more. Stop.’ That’s enough."

"Never in my life have I imagined that so many of these people whom I love, at this very moment that I am writing this essay, already over 100 men and women, wish to cover their bodies with gasoline, drink gasoline, and calmly walk down to the grasslands, or along small village paths, or to the gates of the local government building, or to the town roads, or to the gate of a temple, and on this land and under this sky that once belonged to them, set themselves on fire, to cry out in their language, and to die on this land and under this sky that was ripped away from them."