Business
May 31, 2005
Boone Pickens
“The record’s clean. I’m sure that I haven’t done everything that everyone would like me to do. But I’ve never hurt anybody.”
Texas Monthly Talks
Conversations with the state’s most interesting personalities.
Arts & Entertainment
April 30, 2005
Liz Smith
“Nobody doing what I’m doing is important anymore. Not in the way Winchell, Kilgallen, Hedda, and Louella were important.”
Film & TV
April 1, 2005
Thomas Haden Church
“I knew immediately that they’d be serving ice water in hell about the same time I’d be cast in [Sideways].”
Business
March 1, 2005
John Mackey
“I used to resent the fact that people romanticize Whole Foods. I always wanted to shake them and say, ‘Gosh, we’re just a grocery store!’ ”
Sports
February 1, 2005
Marsha Sharp
“A lot of people are perfect fits for universities. I’m a perfect fit for Texas Tech. I understand West Texas. I am West Texas.”
Politics & Policy
January 1, 2005
Ben Barnes
“There’s not anything that’s happened since Election Day that proves to me that Bush is going to be moderate at all.”
Business
December 1, 2004
Gordon Bethune
“It isn’t about cheap. You can make a pizza so cheap nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap nobody will fly it. It’s about the product.”
Politics & Policy
November 1, 2004
Kay Bailey Hutchison
“Texas is a huge, growing state on a border. We have some very basic issues that need addressing, and I don’t think they’re being addressed right now.”
Film & TV
September 30, 2004
Mike Judge
“You can’t make all of TV and movies kid-safe. If you do, we’re all going to be watching the Care Bears. I think there should be things that are just for adults.”
Books
August 31, 2004
Larry McMurtry
“I like to go out at night. I like to sit in a nice room and look at beautiful women. I don't want to just sit on my back porch drinking scotch, and there isn’t much more to do in Archer City.”
Sports
July 31, 2004
David Carr
“We’re a real NFL football team, and we can go out and make plays. We have talent. We can beat teams. It’s not a fluke if we beat the Cowboys.”
Politics & Policy
June 30, 2004
Susan Combs
“Billy can go to a 7-Eleven and buy a soft drink and must pay sales tax, but Billy goes to school, buys a soft drink, and pays no sales tax.”
Arts & Entertainment
May 31, 2004
Bill Moyers
“War is always a great reinforcer of secrecy, but a war on terror is the most insidious threat to opennessyou can always claim, without having to explain why, that something can't be public.”
Business
April 30, 2004
Michael Dell
The 39-year-old computer mogul on stepping down as CEO of the company he founded, why he doesn’t play footsie with the press (hey!), and the product line he should have launched years ago.