Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.