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

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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. 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The business end of business has never interested me. "

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