I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

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

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives.