My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.

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.