"But the pepper is well worth all time, money, effort. If peppers would not wither I certainly would not have attempted this one when so preoccupied. I must get this one today: it is beginning to show the strain and tomorrow should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models after a masterpiece. But I rather like the idea that they become part of me, enrich my blood as well as my vision."

I read this quote in his aperture monograph and liked - searching on the web, it is often cut up into parts (like the eventual demise of the pepper itself)
Back to my comments about podcasts tomorrow