“it may indeed all come down to black and white, let's ask the typesetter.”

“True friends stay with you no matter the distance or time that seperates you from them.”

“Seeing through the lens started to become a part of my day-to-day life and I focused on the everyday...I looked for beauty in things that often go unnoticed. The lens allowed me to see the beauty from behind the safe remove of a steel-and-leather-covered folding camera.”

“There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to Africa to get out of doing work.”

“This is what men must do. Their true job.""What's that?""Take responsibility for what's theirs and let go the rest.""Seems the trick, then, is figuring out what you can safely let go.”

“There comes a time when the fall of snow is no longer the start of a marvellousadventure. There comes a time when it means scraping your windscreen andhoping your car starts. It means aching joints and throbbing sinuses and coldhands and feet. It means taking longer to get to work and spending all daysitting in an office where the heating isn’t on. Grey slush and cracked pipes,cancelled trains and influenza, that’s what snow means. You’ll wake up feelinglike that, one day, and it will mean you are grown up. I hope that day doesn’tcome soon.”

“I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptised.”