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You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

I am in very good health. I've never felt better.

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

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

I've nailed more women than I could count ... at least I think they were women

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

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

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.

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

I remain very much connected to my childhood ... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

We're separated by our myths.

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.

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.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

I'm actually a very moral guy.

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.

Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.

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

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

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.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

My best pick-up line is My name is Hugh Hefner.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

There are many roads to Mecca.

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

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.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.

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.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

I truly believe that age
if you're healthy
age is just a number.

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

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.

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

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

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

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.

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

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

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.

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