It’s hard to really compare new love and old love.
One of the things I’ve tried to do with my life is redefine the boundaries that I think are very limiting. I’m not suggesting that everybody should have three girlfriends, or necessarily have girlfriends living with them. I think there are many, many options to living your life.
I guess I’m the most successful man I know. I wouldn’t trade places with anybody in the world.
If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.
I guess you could say, I’m just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I’m grateful.
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.
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.
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
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.
If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won’t happen so long as I’m alive, I can promise you that.
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
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.
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.
The business end of business has never interested me.