It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.

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

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.

I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.