209 Quotes by Hugh Hefner

The business end of business has never interested me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

What was intended as a tribute to your tremendous popularity has been misinterpreted by some as something else for which we are truly sorry since we are among your biggest fans.

So unless you can turn sexual addiction on and off ... .

The big surprise for me is that age is just a number, ... It's a number without meaning. A person who dies at 40 -- through cancer, a car accident, what have you -- how old is that person, really, at 38? He's near the end of his life, whether he knows it or not. And what about a person who dies at 100? How old is that person, really, at 78?