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.

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

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.