In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.

Hillary Clinton is so dishonest she doesn't want people peppering her with questions.

We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.

Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

Words could be just as deadly as steel.

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.