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

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn’t agree with – the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

Hugh Hefner

I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Hugh Hefner

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

Hugh Hefner

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I’m primarily a playboy philosopher.

Hugh Hefner

I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex. They included the kind of censorship laws that existed in the movies and books when I was young.

Hugh Hefner

I don’t have dinner parties – I eat my dinner in bed.

Hugh Hefner

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

Hugh Hefner

I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

Hugh Hefner

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

Hugh Hefner