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.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

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

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.