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

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

In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

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

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.