People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

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.

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.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.