"To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light."

“The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.”

“Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.”

Source : Edward Westermarck (1908). “The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas”

“Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”

Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.178, Random House

“As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.”

Source : "A kind of magic". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2010.

“Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”

“I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.”

“A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.”

“The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.”