I met Ray when he came to speak at my university (Wittenberg) in Ohio in 1993-4 (somewhere in there). I had the very great pleasure and honour to sit with him and 4 other students for 2-3 hours before he was to give his speech and just chat. We were given full access to him to ask anything and we did. He enchanted us with his stories and experiences. His speech afterwards was great as well.