“I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.”

There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic?

Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.

I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected.

The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.

You know, the Chinese don’t like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they’re right.

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they’re ideas made into images.

Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

Money doesn’t have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person.

Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak.

I didn’t know anything about fashion. I couldn’t believe it when I got here.

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

It’s straight and narrow, you can see the growth and understand that I’m not afraid to give you honesty and be honest about anything that has to do with my story.

A man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’.

It’s not written in the Constitution or anything else….