I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.