“The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.”

“You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.”

“We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.”

“Your expression dog paddles the entire meeting but your daydream ricochets between the prospect of quitting and painting your room.”

“America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.”

“Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.”