Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.