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

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.