Hugh Hefner

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

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

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 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 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.

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

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.

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.

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

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

I think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

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 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.

'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.