Quotes By Hugh Hefner

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

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

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.

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.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

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

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 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.

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

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

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

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

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

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

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

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

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.