There’s nothing more reassuring than interesting old people. I have no idea who Helmut Knewton was outside of this short interview with him (a photographer who did a lot of nudes apparently), but based solely on its content, I may have to rename another plant.

Q: When you arrived in Singapore you had five dollars to your name, which you immediately spent in a brothel.

A: My sound financial sense told me there was no difference between having five dollars and being completely broke.

Q: You never really talk about the Holocaust.

A: I have no animosity against the Germans. I will never forget or forgive but I find the Germans are the only ones who are seriously confonting their past. When I was offered the Great Federal Order of Merit, June said “You can’t possible accept it!” So I asked Billy Wilder and he said “You’ve got to take it!” I preferred listening to Billy.

And so on.