As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

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

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

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.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.