"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."

"Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it."

"At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes."

"What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet."

"I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished."

"They must be doing something right up there in Canada."

"I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century."

"I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that."

"I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude."

"I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s."

"There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in."

"Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot."

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

"Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are."

"I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion."

"Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports."

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

"I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever."

"In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life."

"Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers."

"The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great."

"The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great."

"For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life."

"If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow."