Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Of course, it has never paid much.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.