The Playboy Book Of Wisdom

Winter 2025

EVERYTHING you need TO KNOW about life, gathered FROM FIVE DECADES of PLAYBOY Interviews.

BY WILL DANA

ADDICTION

I was trying not to feel things, and that’s ridiculous. It’s one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you’re doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you’ll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain. —JOHNNY DEPP, May 2004

ADVICE

The only advice I can give is ne...