A biography for Hugh Hefnerhasn’t been written yet.
“מאז הגיליון הראשון ב־1953 פלייבוי עסק בסגנון חיים. הקוראים שלנו היו מהראשונים להסתגל לטרנדים העדכניים ולטכנולוגיות המתקדמות. עשרות מיליוני הלקוחות שלנו בכל העולם שמתייחסים לפלייבוי כאל תקן הזהב של הבידור לגברים.”
“To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent.”
“I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.”
“It's hard to really compare new love and old love.”
“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 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.”
“Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.”
“Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.”
“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.”
“Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.”
“It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.”