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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.' "

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

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

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

" You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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