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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. "

" 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. "

" My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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