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.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

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

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

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

I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

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.

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence.

Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven't a clue.

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.

If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.