“The idea of life is to give and receive.”

“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

“There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”

“Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.”

“I'm sure you've heard people use the term, "You just don't get it." Well, I figured out the 'it' is the point in life. I believe I was supposed to have been there when my father died, but it was a point in life I just didn't get.”

“Our duty," he said, "is to catapult each other into greatness!" We are not great yet, but at least we sometimes experience moments of immeasurable glee. At least we are not wholly miserable every minute of the day, and we know we have made one another into what we are today.”

“...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.”