“The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.”

“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.”

“Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.”

“In olden times, when wishing still helped...”

“I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.”

“Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.”