Hugh Hefner Quotes

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

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.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

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 w...

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

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

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

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 lo...

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

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

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

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...

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.