"Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers."

“If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.502

“Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass.”

“The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless”

“Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.”

“Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.”

“If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.”

“Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.”

“Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.”