"There was always one. One guy alone who would see her first. Maybe he was just sitting there eating or walking on the…"

"It wasn't what I saw that stopped me Max... it was what I didn't see."

"Take piano: keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you any different. They are not infi…"

"You rolled out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end. And that'…"

"Christ, did you... did you see the streets, just the streets? There were thousands of them! Then how you do it down t…"

"Land? Land is a ship too big for me, it's a woman too beautiful, it's a voyage too long, perfume too strong.... It's …"

"[after his grand finale on the piano, he lights the cigarette on the strings of the piano, walks to Jelly Roll Morton…"

"Fuck the regulations!"

"And fuck jazz, too."

"All that city... You just couldn't see an end to it. The end! Please, could you show me where it ends? It was all ver…"