People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.
— Hugh Hefner
Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.
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.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'
I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
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 have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
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.
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
The business end of business has never interested me.
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.
I am in very good health. I've never felt better.
You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
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.
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
