My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.