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

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

I’ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient.