It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.

I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.

I don't stand behind the camera drooling. Knowing that, the models are more likely to open up and relax.

It’s a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that’s almost animalistic

A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.

Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell, and your trip beginsSeven downward slopesseven bloodied hopesseven are your burning fires, seven your desires...

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

True friends are trustworthy angels.

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.

Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.