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

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.

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.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.