The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions..

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes..

We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are..

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing..

In doing nothing men learn to do evil..

Beneath every history, another history..

I'm not quite as anonymous as I was..

If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no so….

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those….

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of la….

You are richer for doing things..

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions..

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper..

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon….

I live, which is the main point..

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats..

I don't really consider myself to be famous..

Better not to work on things that you're not in love with..

Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, t….

I don't listen to weakies..

I get sidetracked very easily..