“Other Street Merchant:Nothing, I have absolutely nothing for sale!”

“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.”

“Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.”

“I have lost friends, some by death… others by sheer inability to cross the street.”

“It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. ... What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?”

“The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the other's talk, the goings-on in the street…”

“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life… more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”

“Nothing much could happen
Nothing we can't shake
Oh we're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
There's nothing more I need
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners.
But if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed.”

“Impoverished Paris Street Merchant (Jack Carter): Rats, rats for sale. Get your rats. Good for rat stew, rat soup, or the ever-popular ratatouille.”

“I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.”