The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

Socialism never took root in America.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Saints can spring from any soil.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.