Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.
