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.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

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

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

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

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.