I've done a lot of nudes and there's always a sexual charge.

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

Adults are just children who earn money.

Never draw more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.