“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”

“We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom”

“Don’t play that game with me, Acheron. Tell me what I need to know! (Xypher)Nice tone. We should rent you out to record Halloween albums. (Acheron)”

“I need more than the streets. I don’t want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something . . . anything.”

“A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.”

“Alice, I am the game, and trust me: you don’t want to play me.”