I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

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

One of the things I've tried to do with my life is redefine the boundaries that I think are very limiting. I'm not suggesting that everybody should have three girlfriends, or necessarily have girlfriends living with them. I think there are many, many options to living your life.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.