H. Joaquin Jackson > Quotes

“Walter Prescott Webb’s The Texas Rangers, Robert Utley’s Lone Star Justice, and Mike Cox’s Wearing the Cinco Peso: A History of the Texas Rangers.”
― H. Joaquin Jackson, One Ranger: A Memoir

“It’s an old and sad story. The artist lets the bottle or the dope get between him and his art. He spends half his life achieving success and the second half throwing it all away. How many talents have self-destructed before him? How many more will follow in his wake?”
― H. Joaquin Jackson, One Ranger: A Memoir

“We evolved perfectly attuned to our time and place—for Texas has long been a sort of human Galapagos, an unsettled country of conflicting cultures and social contradictions, a rugged, ragtag region born with wars raging on two disputed borders.”
― H. Joaquin Jackson, One Ranger: A Memoir