Hugh Hefner

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

“There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.”

“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.”

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

“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...”

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

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle.”

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

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”