I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born.

I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.

I think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual.

Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy.

Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round.

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle.