Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.