There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures of it that they can only attempt to view it via these clichés, and they take home photographs of Venice that are similar to the ones they already knew. Venice [is] becoming like one of those painted backdrops that photographers use in their studio.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.