They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldn’t take advantage of them.

I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad you did.

Make the most of what you have and enjoy being female; enjoy being YOU.

I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.

I was just confident my work was good.

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

A mother is an irreplaceable gift that God has given every mankind. Your (a child's) duty is to honour, adore, respect and serve her. Your blessings are tied in how honour she felt.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.