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

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.

I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.

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.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.