Good peo­ple drink good beer. Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer. Think about it.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

There is no story unless you've written it.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.