I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.

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

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 always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.