Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
“Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.”
“It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.”