Hugh Hefner's Quotes

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 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 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 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.

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

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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