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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. "

" I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "