People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

- Hugh Hefner

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.

- Hugh Hefner

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.

- Hugh Hefner

The business end of business has never interested me.

- Hugh Hefner

I'm actually a very moral guy.

- Hugh Hefner

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

- Hugh Hefner

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

- Hugh Hefner

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

- Hugh Hefner

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.

- Hugh Hefner

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

- Hugh Hefner

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

- Hugh Hefner

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

- Hugh Hefner

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

- Hugh Hefner

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

- Hugh Hefner

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

- Hugh Hefner

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

- Hugh Hefner

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

- Hugh Hefner

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

- Hugh Hefner

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

- Hugh Hefner

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

- Hugh Hefner