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.

I’ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

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

The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.