Life and values do run in cycles.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said that the two most famous trademarks in the world are Coca-Cola and the Playboy bunny rabbit. There is certainly no one else in our area that represents the American dream in this particular kind of way. That rabbit means economic freedom, personal freedom and political freedom. That potential is unlimited.

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.

My life is an open book. With illustrations.