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Beauty is everywhere -- on the campus, in the office, living next door ... Nice girls like sex too -- it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it.
HUGH HEFNER, NPR interview, Sep. 6, 2003
I remain very much connected to my childhood ... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated -- it keeps me alive every day.
HUGH HEFNER, AskMen.com interview
Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality -- because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.
HUGH HEFNER, NPR interview, Sep. 6, 2003
Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.
HUGH HEFNER, Playboy, Jan. 1974
I've never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient.
I am a kid in the candy store. I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
HUGH HEFNER, Rita Cosby Live & Direct, Oct. 17, 2005
Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.
HUGH HEFNER, AskMen.com interview
If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.
HUGH HEFNER, Playboy, Jan. 1974
I truly believe that age -- if you're healthy -- age is just a number.
HUGH HEFNER, interview, Apr. 8, 2006
There are many roads to Mecca.
HUGH HEFNER, Rita Cosby Live & Direct, Oct. 17, 2005
My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."
HUGH HEFNER, Esquire, Jun. 2002
It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty" -- and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine.
HUGH HEFNER, The Realist, May, 1961
We're separated by our myths.
HUGH HEFNER, Esquire, Jun. 2002
I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
HUGH HEFNER, Nightline interview, Jul. 22, 2010
If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.
HUGH HEFNER, The Realist, May, 1961
Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I changed my mind just before we went to press, thank God. Somehow, it wouldn't have been the same. Can you imagine a chain of key clubs staffed by beautiful girls wearing antlers?
HUGH HEFNER, Playboy, Jan. 1974
To begin with, I fought racism, then sexism, now I'm fighting ageism. One defines oneself in one's own terms. If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
HUGH HEFNER, Time Magazine, Jun. 6, 2011
For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.
HUGH HEFNER, Esquire Online, Mar. 25, 2013
Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.
HUGH HEFNER, Esquire, Jun. 2002
One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.
HUGH HEFNER, Nightline interview, Jul. 22, 2010
There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.
HUGH HEFNER, Esquire Online, Mar. 25, 2013
Of course, it is the nature of the beast to find the prude and the bigot most anxious to force his or her opinion of what is right on the rest of us. They often seem to have nothing better to do with themselves than worry about the affairs of their neighbors.
HUGH HEFNER, The Realist, May, 1961
Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.
HUGH HEFNER, Playboy, Jan. 1974
My life is an open book. With illustrations.
HUGH HEFNER, Esquire, Jun. 2002
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