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

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

" I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. "

" Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am. "

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

" 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. "

" I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. "

" There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free. "

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

" Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time. "