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I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.

I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.