- Nemo: [writing on the wall] As a gesture of thanks for your hospitality, I've saved three things of yours from destruction. I lived in your place only a short time. For you, it was a home. For me, it was a cage. I'm sorry if I destroyed it, but maybe it needed to be destroyed. After all, there's no creation without destruction.
- [first lines]
- Nemo: [narrating] When I was a kid my teacher asked, what are the three things that I would save from my house if it were on fire. I answered: my sketchbook, my AC/DC album, and my cat Groucho. I didn't mention my parents or my sister. Of course, most of the other kids did. Does that make me a bad person?
- Nemo: My cat died, and I lent the AC/DC album to a guy named Cojo and I never saw it again. But the sketchbook I kept. Cats die, music fades. But art is for keeps.