“I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.”

“I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.”

“All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.”

“I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.”

“You're not damaged. But even if you were, I'd spend the rest of my life fixing you. My life isn't mine either,Caitlin. I can't explain it, but since I've met you, I've felt a connection to you so strong that I can't deny it. I don't want to deny it. So my life isn't my own. It's yours.”

“You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...”