"Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet..."

“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press

“I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.”

“To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.”

“It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.”

“My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.”

“And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.”

“For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.”

“A dunk is nice because it can create momentum, but it's not as good as scoring a touchdown.”