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.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.

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

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

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.