“Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.”

“How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.”

“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”

“One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.”

“The disconnect between his mouth and his mind. That's where the camera came in. It was the unspoken thing between him and the others.”

“The ticking was gone from my mind and all was quiet everywhere in the world and I held the curtain like I held the sound of the bullets going into the draft horse, his favourite, in the barn, one two three, and I stood at the window in Stevie’s jacket and looked and waited and still the rain kept coming down outside one two three and I was thinking oh what a small sky for so much rain.”

“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”