I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

It's up to history to judge.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

I am reckless, yes, but not thoughtless