What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.

It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.