It that hadn't happened, Chinatown would have died.

If all the Chinese men who claimed to be US-born actually were, it meant every woman in Chinatown would have to have had 800 sons. That gives you an idea what was going on.

They used the wrong kind of dynamite and it started more fires.

It's not the earth's fault. It's people's fault.

The same earth that made us the golden state made us earthquake country.

I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.