“I can’t be happy going out if it’s not . . . going anywhere.”
“Where’s jazz going? I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”
“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.”
“And that’s why I can’t go out with you. I’m not going to become a number you can’t identify. It’s not what I’m looking for.”
“That I love her, that I want her, that I'm never going anywhere, that she and I are going to last. That this is real. That it’s forever.”
“It’s okay. Everything’s going to be okay. You can let go of the sword.""I can’t. I can’t leave him alone. I have to protect him.""You have.”