Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it..

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports..

Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizi….

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….

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

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

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner.".

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me..

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy..

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

The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another ge….

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

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world..

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife..

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 ingred….

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,….

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 y….

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..

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn'….

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life..

We have a tremendous opportunity to try to start solving some of our overwhelming problems with population related environment, related to the hatred….