"All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."

"I’ve always had an affinity for wildlife, and the direct assault made on that wildlife by hunters and trappers has always infuriated me … At the same time, I don’t have a hands-on fondness for animals…"

"Men differ widely as to the magnitude of this potential Chinese immigration. The fact that by the late treaty with China we bind ourselves to receive immigrants from that country only as the subjects …"

"One is based on the Medea myth about a woman who kills her own child -- The Love of Ruins. It is almost a technical exercise to see if I can convince an audience or make an audience sympathetic to a w…"

"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."