Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.