When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can’t buy time.

More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it.

I now can say I no longer fear death. Instead welcome it with open arms…

Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.

Do not let a book get you in a reading slump

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

My dad is an egomaniac.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.