Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.