I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

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

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.