The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They’d wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own.

(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna.

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them