“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ”

“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”

“So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.”

“It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.”

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”

“I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.”