Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

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.

Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.