Quotes by Hugh Hefner

“Life is too short to be living somebody elses dream.”

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

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

“The big surprise for me is that age is just a number, ... Its a number without meaning. A person who dies at 40 -- through cancer, a car accident, what have you -- how old is that person, really, at 38? Hes near the end of his life, whether he knows it or not. And what about a person who dies at 100? How old is that person, really, at 78?”

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

“You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.”

“Playboy isnt like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some mens magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.”

“quality.”

“Its the music of my youth. Its the music I grew up with. Its the music of my dreams.”

“The notion of the single man began in the 1950s. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.”

“In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.”

“If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, its because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and thats the most revolutionary insight of all.”

“A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows”

Its perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. Its something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesnt have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

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

The business end of business has never interested me.

Im very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. Whats 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.

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 shouldnt be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

I have no plans to retire. Its 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.

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.