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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad. "

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

" 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 good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. "

" Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. "

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

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

" With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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