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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process. "

" Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart. "

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

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

" Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. "

" The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large part in. The reality is that the major beneficiaries of the sexual revolution are women. "

" I'm actually a very moral guy. "

" Men's magazines in the period immediately after World War II were almost all outdoor-oriented. They were connected to some extent in the male bonding that came out of a war... And what I tried to create was a magazine for the indoor guy, but focused specifically on the single life: in other words, the period of bachelorhood before you settle down. "

" 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'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 think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual. "

" I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married. "

" 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. "

" It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation. "

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

" There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society. "