"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."

"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."

"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

"Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow."

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality."

"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."

"I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles."