“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.”

“Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?”

“Most things in my life are anything but simple--but loving you is. I just do.”

“I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.”

“For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.”

“I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.”

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood and the strings of the violin, where would the sonata find form?”

“ I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

“...And no prenup. Prenups are for people who plan on getting a divorce. I have so much, Bernie. But I've never had anyone to share it with. From now on, what's mine is yours”

“I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.”

“Every great love starts with a great story...”

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extend...”

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”