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" 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. "

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" Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers. "

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

" 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. "

" When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a sophisticated men's magazine. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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Society

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round. "

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Attraction

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

" I'm actually a very moral guy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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