He once said, "Texas is twelve million people who are bright and dumb, conservative and liberal, tall and short and slim and fat, courageous and cowardly--just like people in Connecticut and Oregon." And, "The philosophy of the cowboy is not spoken, but tacit. It must remain what he was, not what he said." And, "Academics everywhere are generally as rigid as rednecks, as conservative as successful farmers, and as irrational as zealots." Joe B. Frantz...