“I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to ...” — Teju Cole Quote

“I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards.”

“Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.”

“Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.”

“Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.”

“That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.”

“There's something about doing something very physical that makes you feel better afterward.”