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" Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My mother loaned me $1000. The first issue came out at the end of 1953. I knew I needed something original. I had a photographer shoot a 3D feature for the first issue and learned it would cost too much money. When the 3D thing turned out to be too expensive, at that same moment I came across the photos of Marilyn Monroe. "

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

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

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

" To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve. "

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

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

" 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. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble. "

" I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist. "

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

" 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. "

" I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 business end of business has never interested me. "

" 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. "

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

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