Hugh Hefner Quotes - Page 6

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

I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.

Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I changed my mind just before we went to press, thank God. Somehow, it wouldn't have been the same. Can you imagine a chain of key clubs staffed by beautiful girls wearing antlers?

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.

I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

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.

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.

There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.

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

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.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

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.

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.

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

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

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.