"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."

"If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights."

"It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers."

"I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children."

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

"It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people."

"The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people."

"I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss."

"Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young."

"I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes."

"The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex."

"Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down."

"I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself."

"I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life."

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

"Everybody marches to a different drummer."

"There are many roads to Mecca."

"Beauty is everywhere -- on the campus, in the office, living next door ... Nice girls like sex too -- it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it."

"I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time."

"What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young."

"I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet."

"America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies."

"I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher."