It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.