Hugh Hefner

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

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers parents and society you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short be a dreamer but be a practical person.

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

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I always say now that Im in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

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.

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

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

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