I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical. - Ai Weiwei

Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist’s activity. . . . . In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.