209 Quotes by Hugh Hefner

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 generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

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.

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

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

Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

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

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

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.

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