We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.