In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it's the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.

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

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

My life has been devoted to trying to bring a little more understanding to human sexuality - not just in society, but also inside myself. The struggle has been internal as well as external. One of the reasons that I have such tremendous satisfaction at this point in my life is because I know I've made a difference. I've made a difference in a way that really matters to me. I see a lot of terrible things going on in the world, but there are some good things going on too, and I feel I've been a part of that. I really do feel I have been on the side of the angels.

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.