I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.
If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!
I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.