Hugh Hefner

“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.”

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

“I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.”

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

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

“The business end of business has never interested me.”

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

“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.”

“'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 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.”

“I'm actually a very moral guy.”

“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.”

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

“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 and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”