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" If I ever try to get married again, shoot me. "

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" 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'm actually a very moral guy. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "