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

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.

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.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

The business end of business has never interested me.

I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

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