What men do matters more than what they know.

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

Truth does not surround itself with lies.

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

In the realm of dream and imagination all men are equal.

From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I was an atheist, then a Christian, for which I was called a traitor.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

I know there must be something I should explore about that with my therapist.

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.