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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.