Hugh Hefner

I truly believe that age – if you’re healthy – age is just a number.

Hugh Hefner

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

Hugh Hefner

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

Hugh Hefner

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

Hugh Hefner

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn’t have to prove anything anymore – in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

Hugh Hefner

America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.

Hugh Hefner

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

Hugh Hefner

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

Hugh Hefner

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

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