I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

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

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

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.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.