Quotes from Hugh Hefner

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

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

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

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

It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.

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 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.

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

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

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

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.

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