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Oliviero Toscani - Sue Baloo Wearing Zandra Rhodes (Vogue UK 1974)

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”

— Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”

— Fannie Flagg

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”

— Sam Keen

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. John Kennedy

“Difficult doesn’t mean impossible. It simply means you have to work hard.”

— Unknown

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

— Steve Maraboli

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

— Henry Ford

“You belong to me, I have made you mine. I have fought for you within myself, from the beginning, and always anew, and perhaps forever.”

— Franz Kafka

Bianca Jagger photographed in Paris by Eric Boman, 1974.

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is. B. F. Skinner

Gerda Taro with a stone inscribed "PC", Spain, ca. 1937 - by Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), Hungarian

Northwest corner, Michigan Ave, Chicago, 1964 - by Jay King (1944), American

Donna, October 1997.

Ph. Jackie Nickerson

Peter Hujar Gary Schneider in Contortion, New York City 1979

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first. John Updike, Rabbit, Run

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. Roy T. Bennett

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