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

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.

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

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.

Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?""Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.