As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

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.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

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

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.

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