Make the most of what you have and enjoy being female; enjoy being YOU.

I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad you did.

They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldn’t take advantage of them.

I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.

I was just confident my work was good.

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.

We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

Stick with your passion, and keep moving forward. You can't go wrong.

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.