Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.

Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and equal pay for equal work, and I agree with them 100%. Though on some days it is hard to figure out how a species that controls 97% of the money and all the pussy can be downtrodden.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.